7News was the first to report how Loudoun County Superintendent Aaron Spence brought his public relations person, Natalie Allen, with him from Virginia Beach City Public Schools, created a new position for her at LCPS and gave her a taxpayer-funded salary of $251,000 — which is more money than LCPS pays their top attorney, chief of schools, and Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning.
7News emailed LCPS and asked, “How does the superintendent justify giving [Natalie] Allen a salary of more than a quarter of $1 million plus benefits and moving costs?”
“This level of compensation is in line with other chief officers,” LCPS replied in part.
So 7News submitted public records requests to learn what nearby school systems pay their top PR people.