Tiverton Superintendent Waives Pay Raise

While many heads of schools across the state are being criticized for their large salaries, Tiverton Supt. William Rearick waived the 3 percent salary increase guaranteed in his contract. He is among the lowest paid superintendents in the state.

As many public school superintendents were criticized last week for their inflated salaries, Tiverton's head of school quietly forfeited a 3 percent salary increase guaranteed in his salary. Since 2009, Supt. William J. Rearick has accepted a zero percent salary increase even though his contract has a built in raise of 3 percent annually. "Every year I take a zero because that's that the teachers have taken," said Rearick. Through the end of the 2012-13 school year, Rearick will not accept a raise on his base salary of $122,923. Over the next two years of his contract, Rearick's salary will see a 1.75 percent increase and he will be awarded a $900 stipend. These increases mirror those accepted in the teacher's contract in August by the …

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Letter to the Editor

LETTER: NEA Contract Is Overreaching

Tiverton resident Justin Katz, a candidate for school committee, writes a letter to the editor.

  Anybody who's able to catch video from the Aug. 14 Tiverton School Committee meeting should do so. It provides an excellent lesson on why all levels of government are facing financial crises. Whether it's the need for new tolls, catastrophic debt, or underfunded pension plans, wishful and unclear thinking about money is at the root. On Tuesday, the committee approved an agreement with the teachers' union, extending their contract until 2015. It didn't have to be approved before the upcoming election, and it didn't have to cover three years. The lesson came when member Danielle Coulter suggested that the committee should clarify how much money the agreement would obligate the town to pay. What followed was an extended word game, led by …

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Naome Lixes

9:05 pm on Friday, August 31, 2012

Fair enough, that's a reasonable request. Get him to at least check his submissions prior to posting, won't you? It's not as if coherence (or even remaining topical) are strong suits, there. That, and there's so much of it...   more ›

LETTER: Teacher Contract Will Be Costlier Than Anticipated

Tiverton School Committee candidate Ruth Hollenbach says the teacher's union contract that could be ratified by the School Committee tonight is misleading.

Before Tiverton’s history-making FTR, the school department announced there would only be two options if voters chose the smaller budget: close an elementary school or cancel all extracurricular activities, including athletics and some music. How big was the possible gap? At its last meeting before the FTR, Supt. William Rearick told the School Committee, “when all is said and done, about $340,000 to $350,000,” after using up reserves. Don’t miss this, people of Tiverton: The committee is now preparing to approve an agreement with the teachers’ union that would add much more than that to the next two budgets! Approval is scheduled for [tonight], Tuesday, Aug. 14, 7:00 p.m. at the High School library.  Details of the plan only became …

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