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Lusher underpaid CEO Kathy Riedlinger by $51,700, board says
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The Lusher Charter School governing board has for 11 years underpaid Chief Executive Officer Kathy Riedlinger, an oversight that’s added up to about $51,700 owed in back pay, officials announced during a board of director’s meeting Saturday. Board member Rachel Wisdom said members had every year been underpaying Riedlinger by about $4,700, or roughly 2 percent of her total salary. Riedlinger had recently made $262,778 for running the 1,700 student, A-rated school, according to a NOLA.com analysis of federal tax forms from 2013-14. That figure made her the city’s top-paid public education leader as of last year. Wisdom said that while Riedlinger had been consistently underpaid for more than a decade, the board’s Chief Financial Officer, Charmaine Davis, had made her aware of the problem just a couple of months ago.