Nikolai Vitti (Twitter photo)
Nikolai Vitti (Twitter photo)
It may seem like a lot of money for a taxpayer-paid job in Detroit, but it's competitive in the educational world.
Harvard educated Nikolai Vitti, 40, who earned $275,000 as superintendent of Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Fla., is expected to make as much as $295,000 in his first year as the new superintendent of Detroit Public Schools, reports Lori Higgins of the Detroit Free Press.
The Detroit school board is expected to take up the proposed contract at a meeting Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Douglass Academy for Young Men, 2001 W. Warren.The meeting is open to the public.
The Duval County district, with 120,000 students, is America's 20th largest.
The $295,000 salary would be for the first year of a five-year contract and he would receive raises if he gets positive evaluations from the board, the Freep reports. His contract would also include medical, dental and vision insurance, a $20,000 annuity and a $9,000 car allowance.
A native of Dearborn Heights, Vitti attended Divine Child High School, a Catholic school in Dearborn and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., and a master's and doctorate degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.
