A few months ago, The State reported on a Midlands charter school principal with a salary nearly double that of his local peers and on par with South Carolina’s highest-paid superintendents.
It got us thinking, how did the $322,545 salary of Brian Newsome, the principal of Gray Collegiate Academy in West Columbia, compare to other principals across the state? Were there other school leaders making similar amounts or was his salary a true outlier?
To answer that question, we submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the S.C. Department of Education, which tracks the salaries of administrators in all 80 of the state’s public school districts…