{"id":172406,"date":"2025-08-04T10:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=172406"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:05:34","slug":"virginia-school-superintendent-earning-more-than-the-president-wants-taxpayer-funded-bodyguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=172406","title":{"rendered":"Virginia school superintendent, earning more than the president, wants taxpayer-funded bodyguard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michelle Reid, Fairfax County Public Schools division superintendent, recently received approval to renew her contract. The renewal also comes with a salary increase from $380,000 to $424,146. This new salary results in Reid’s making more money than Donald Trump’s salary as president. This job also comes with a $12,000 annual car allowance. But wait! There’s more! Reid now wants a taxpayer funded personal bodyguard. The position is called “Executive Protection Agent” and comes with a salary range from $84,552 to $143,880.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The new job would earn between $84,552 to $143,880, according to the FCPS pay scale for a “Unified Scale-Schedule B\/Grade 006” job, paying far more than the starting salary of about $58,000 that a new teacher gets in the school district.<\/p>\n

“The Executive Protection Agent is responsible for ensuring the personal safety, security and operational continuity of the division superintendent across school campuses, public events, official travel, and private residences,” the job description reads.<\/p>\n

The new position comes at a time when public school officials, like Reid, are facing heightened accountability in the post-COVID era over curriculum, contracts, budgets and “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies. In 2021, the Biden administration targeted parents for charges of alleged “domestic terrorism” for raising concerns at school board meetings, but new email records have revealed the allegations were overblown and politicized.<\/p>\n

Since taking over on July 1, 2022, Reid has come under fire for allegedly covering up scandals over improprieties in football recruiting, the withholding of National Merit awards from students and, most recently, defying Department of Education orders regarding Title IX protections for girls in sports and schools. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights just announced that Fairfax County Public Schools and four other northern Virginia school districts, including Loudoun County Public Schools, violated TItle IX protections by discriminating against students on the basis of sex.<\/p>\n

Last November, the all-Democratic school board voted unanimously to renew Reid’s four-year contract and increased her annual salary to $424,146 from $380,000, more than the salary of New York City’s education chancellor. Board members also gave her a $12,000 annual car allowance. In contrast, the U.S. president earns $400,000 annually.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nomani, A. Q. (2025, August 3). ‘Queen Reid’: Embattled Virginia schools boss demands personal bodyguard on top of lavish salary, perks. Fox News. <\/em> Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michelle Reid, Fairfax County Public Schools division superintendent, recently received approval to renew her contract. The renewal also comes with a salary increase from $380,000 to $424,146. This new salary results in Reid’s making more money than Donald Trump’s salary as president. This job also comes with a $12,000 annual car allowance. But wait! There’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-democrats"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-IQK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}