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SoCalHoops High School & Prep Report

LA City Section Coaches To
Get A Pay Raise? Maybe--(June 11, 1998)

The LA Times reported today that Los Angeles Board of Education member David Tokofsky said he plans to introduce a motion calling for a 30% raise in coaching stipends at the next board meeting on Monday. City Section coaches have not received a pay raise since 1989. Their pay scale ranks 43rd among 47 Los Angeles County school districts. Board members expressed support for the coaches' plight at an earlier meeting, but Tokofsky said it will be difficult to convince district staff to support the pay raise because the money would come from the general fund and others might also seek a raise. "I'm afraid of the anger coaches will have if they have to go another two to 10 years without another raise," he said.

And goodness knows, we don't want angry coaches.

Seriously, it's pretty amazing, and equally admirable that many of the good coaches have stayed with their programs as long as they have given the disparity between what they currently earn and what they might otherwise earn at other districts or at private schools.