A public records document released by the Kent School District that showed stipends of $26,000 to $41,00 paid last year to central office administrators raised a lot of inquiries, especially after its distribution by the Kent Education Association (KEA, teachers union) at a Jan. 12 district community budget meeting.
District communications team staff, however, in a Jan. 16 email to the Kent Reporter in response to questions about the large stipends, said the public record document had a “misleading” stipend column and that nobody received the large amounts of extra pay listed under that category.
The response included an attachment explaining that the extra pay was two months pay of an employee’s annual salary and not pay in addition to the base salary…