Totally unacceptable !!!
Raise for what ?
That's money that could have been used to get the necessary equipment and supplies for the Students.
avoid layoffs, and pay some salaries for teachers who actually do the job.

“Paterson remains academically one of the lowest performing districts in New Jersey. Graduation rates have dropped two years in a row. Academic improvements have been stagnant. And she has filed tenure charges against a popular gym teacher for, among other things, ostensible libel and slander.”

And this justifies a pay raise? Shafer is a greedy loser.

This Superintendent’s greatest successes come from her ability to keep her head down, manage by committee, avoid controversy by never making a serious decision, and allowing local politicians to use the district as a feeding trough, and for all of this lack of vision and leadeshe has received promotion after promotion and has now managed a 15% raise. The members of this BOE should be ashamed of their decision to give this Superintendent this raise when she runs a district which is a fiscal disaster, where graduation rates have fallen, where teachers are being furloughed, and when this city and this state are in a financial crisis.

The only good thing she did was call out the charters causing the district's fiscal woes. Then the BOE who is in the charter lobby's deep pockets made her shut up really quick and made her March with them for the cameras. Other than that she has been a failure. Schools and alternative programs close because the funds go to charters hence the decline in graduation rates. Not enough chromebooks because the money goes to charters and Manny Martinezes and Danny from Paterson science charters victims even though Ilearn is a multimillion dollar company. They are all corrupt and should be locked up. Where is the FBI?

#fireeileenshafer no raise!fire her. Yoy just need to interact with 95% of Paterson "children" to see the job she's doing. Is she getting a raise for ensuring the little street thugs continue to curse,destroy property,disrespect,break bottles on people's sidewalks,then assault the adult who hands them a broom & dustpan, asking them to clean it up. You're damn right I whooped his ass. Maybe if his trash mother raised him as a normal human, he would act like one. But if the garbage parents fail, you would think the schools and ALL involved would pick up and teach them manners, responsibility, etc, instead of allowing this disgusting behaviour in schools. So tell me again why this idiot is getting a big raise? Apparently she's as corrupt as the majority of employees in this city. Whatever she's doing to get that raise is definitely not because she's doing a great job with the students.