New York state Senate Republicans on Friday eviscerated the Board of Regents for its approval of a secret $155,000 pay raise for top schools boss Betty Rosa, calling it yet another example of “out-of-control spending.”
The lawmakers, in a scathing letter, urged the 15-member panel to reconsider the “unwarranted and offensive pay increase,” which brought Rosa, the State Education Department commissioner and Board of Regents chair, to a whopping $489,000 annual salary.
Rosa, as The Post revealed this week, is also cashing in on a nearly $120,000 pension from her time as a Bronx principal and superintendent, which the GOP pols pointed out means she’s pocketing over $600,000 total in taxpayer cash.
“New Yorkers are struggling to pay their bills,” the 16 lawmakers, led by state Senate Minority Leader Robert Ortt, wrote in the letter. “When the median household income in New York State is $81,000, it is incomprehensible that a raise twice that amount to a public official who was already making four times the median household income was approved by you as board members.”
https://nypost.com/2025/01/31/us-news/ny-top-school-chiefs-secret-155k-raise-sparks-outrage-from-gop-pols-unwarranted-and-offensive/