The state Board of Regents at a 2023 meeting in Huxley Theatre at the State Museum in Albany. Its members were recently obliged to defend a large salary increase for Education Commissioner Betty Rosa.

If we’re correctly grasping the logic of the argument being used to justify state Education Commissioner Betty A. Rosa $155,000 pay hike, she can’t oversee local school district superintendents unless she earns at least as much, if not more, than the highest-paid among them.

Under that line of thinking, the governor, who earns $250,000 a year, needs a pay hike in the realm of $750,000 if she’s going to maintain proper control over a government in which some top medical and tech specialists earn in the $1 million range. And what........

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