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BARTOW – Incoming Polk County Public Schools Superintendent Frederick Heid said he wants to be treated like any other school administrator when it comes to salary and health insurance.
The Polk County School Board will vote on Heid’s contract at Tuesday night’s board meeting, which includes a salary of $255,000 and health insurance for Heid, but not his wife and son he will cover the cost for their insurance just like school employees do for spouses and children.
“I’ll pay for it – I pay for it now,” Heid said during a Monday morning phone call. “It’s something I’m accustomed to. It’s a fairness – you re modeling (behavior). I m not better than anyone else in the organization.”
• Harold Border current chief of Orange County High Schools in Florida;
• Frederick Heid current superintendent, Community Unit School District in Algonquin, Illinois;
• James McIntyre, Jr. assistant professor of practice and director of the Center for Educational Leadership at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville;
• Michael Ramirez deputy superintendent of Denver Public Schools in Colorado;
• Nakia Towns deputy superintendent of Hamilton County Schools in Chattanooga, Tennessee
About a dozen or so people attended the interview sessions on Wednesday and Thursday, while about four dozen people gathered for Thursday evening’s meet and greet at the Jim Miles Center in Highland City.