Ed. Funding: Tulsa Public Schools Defends New Super’s 3 Year, $1.2M Deal
TPS officials offer up comparisons, defenses of Gist’s first superintendent contract
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
A full cost analysis by Tulsa Public Schools shows the district’s next superintendent stands to earn a compensation package valued at nearly $1.2 million over the next three years.
The two most comparable years in the analysis are outgoing Superintendent Keith Ballard’s final year and incoming Superintendent Deborah Gist’s third — the last in her three-year contract — because both include retention bonuses and neither include relocation expenses, which Gist stands to receive in the coming months.
Ballard’s final year compensation package will cost TPS $371,851 if he remains through June 30 and earns a $70,000 retention bonus. Gist, meanwhile, could get $431,977 in salaries, fringe benefits and bonuses in the third year of her contract.
That’s a difference of just over $60,000.