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Wake superintendent may be a bargain
Wake County's superintendent gets a 4 percent pay hike, raising his base salary to $273,000, The N&O reports..
The 136,000-student school system is the largest in North Carolina.
Del Burns, 55, has been with Wake schools for 32 years, starting in 1976 as an LD Resources teacher. He was the county's Principal of the Year in 1999 at Millbrook High School. In 2006, he was named superintendent.
That kind of homegrown leadership is rare in large school systems these days.
Guilford County is paying its new superintendent, Maurice Green, 41, a base salary of $250,000. The Guilford County system has about 71,000 students.
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