A Times news article about the clash between New York Mayor de Blasio and charter school operator Eva Moskowitz includes this paragraph:
She has also attracted notice for her salary, $475,000, partly paid by donors, and roughly double what the chancellor earns. "The irony of what is going on is, here is a woman who makes quite a substantial living on the ability to create schools by pushing thousands of children out of their school buildings, and now she is upset that someone is pushing back on her," said Michael Mulgrew, the president of the city teachers' union.
This is a cheap shot. First of all, the United Federation of Teachers itself operated its own charter schools in city school buildings. Second of all, Mr. Mulgrew's predecessor at the United Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, herself earned more than $600,000 from the union in 2010, and Mr. Mulgrew's own union compensation in 2013 of $294,013, according to the department of labor, is itself quite "substantial," and also more than what the schools chancellor earns. The Times doesn't point any of this out.
The Times article also refers to Ms. Moskowitz as "a darling of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's administration." That's a bit of revisionist history. As chairman of the City Council education committee engaging in vigorous oversight of the Bloomberg administration, Ms. Moskowitz was not a "darling" of the Bloomberg administration, she was someone who gave them a lot of headaches. Later, when she left the City Council and became a charter school operator, the administration tried to help her because she was helping students learn.