In an interview with The Wall Street Journal posted last night, Osborne says he couldn't sleep some nights as he tossed and turned over whether to leave our district:
The Journal reports:
Brian Osborne
said he couldn't sleep some nights this spring as he wrestled
with the idea of leaving his superintendent's post in a growing New
Jersey district to accept a job offer in New York.
Dr. Osborne had steered South Orange-Maplewood schools through significant changes and wanted to see his work continue to bear fruit. But he couldn't resist a job in New Rochelle, N.Y., with base pay of $265,000 a year—or $87,500 more than he could earn in New Jersey under a salary cap that would hit him as soon as his contract expired June 30.
"It was an incredibly difficult choice," he said.
With Dr. Osborne's decision, 10 of the 43 districts in New York's Westchester County are now run by former New Jersey superintendents who left after Gov. Chris Christie imposed the saalary cap in February 2011, saying it would help limit sky-high property taxes.
In 97 cases, districts cited the cap as the reason for the leader's departure. Many headed to jobs in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New York. Some retired.
The governor's spokesman, Michael Drewniak, said the cap will be revisited when it sunsets in 2016. He wouldn't predict whether it might change.
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