Hinojosa To Visit McEachern, Sprayberry

Michael Hinojosa, who was by the Board of Education to serve as the next superintendent of Cobb County, will be visiting and high schools on Wednesday.

He is set to be at Sprayberry from 4:30 to 6 p.m. and McEachern from 6:30 to 8, according to a news release from the Cobb County School District.

Hinojosa, the six-year superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District in Texas, is set to place Fred Sanderson, who is retiring.

While visiting  on Monday, 54-year-old Hinojosa will be about $237,000, or $29,000 more than Sanderson’s base salary of $208,000, and he won’t have any performance-based incentives.

An incentive for taking the job, he said, was being near .

In addition to his Cobb salary, Hinojosa, who will be Cobb's 20th superintendent, said he will receive a pension “north of” $200,000 from the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

Hinojosa attended Dallas public schools as a child and started his 30-plus-year career in education there as a teacher, according to his official online bio. He has served as a school system superintendent in Texas since 1994 and became the head of the Dallas school system, the 14th largest in the nation, in May 2005.

He with the Dallas school district that runs through mid-2015 after finishing second in Las Vegas’ superintendent search.

In Dallas, Hinojosa leads an urban school system with nearly 156,000, more than 10,200 teachers and an annual budget of $1.2 billion, according to the school district’s website. By contrast, the Cobb County School District has fewer than 107,000 students and just under 6,000 teachers, supported by a general-fund budget of $841 million.