HARRIS TO MAKE $95,000

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 17, 1993                   TAG: 9302170260
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
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HARRIS TO MAKE $95,000
Roanoke's new school superintendent will be paid $95,000 a year for the next four years under a contract approved Tuesday by the School Board.
E. Wayne Harris' contract begins on July 1 and expires June 30, 1997.
Harris makes $89,000 as an area superintendent with Fairfax County schools. His pay has not changed since 1989.
"You can't expect someone to come here for the same," said board Chairman Finn Pincus. "We feel it was fair."
Retiring Superintendent Frank Tota's salary of $100,000 makes him one of the highest-paid school superintendents in the state. His salary has been hotly disputed over the years, primarily by teachers who have argued that he continued to receive hefty pay increases while teachers got little or no raises.
"I'm not going to complain," Roanoke Education Association President Dorothy Cooper said of Harris' salary. "I feel that at $89,000, he was getting a raise because the cost of living here is so much less. But from what I've seen, he's probably worth $95,000."

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB