LAWNDALE, Calif. – One California school superintendent had a much better 2013 than the president of the United States – at least financially speaking.

LA Daily News reports that Jose Fernandez, superintendent of the 6,600-pupil Centinela Valley Unified High School District, received more than $663,000 in total compensation last year – nearly $100,000 more than President Barack Obama’s total compensation of $569,000.

The revelation has been greeted by shock and disgust by community members.

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One teachers union official called Fernandez’s deal “obscene” and other observer called it “horrible.”

They’d better get used to it. While the contract clauses that allowed Fernandez to out-earn presumably every other school leader in the Golden State were put in place in 2009, the Centinela Valley school board renewed the terms of his contract for another four years back in 2012.

That means Fernandez is situated for big paydays through 2016.

In a terrific analysis of the superintendent’s contract, the LA Daily News explains how Fernandez managed to make such a breathtaking amount of money last year.

Fernandez’s base salary was $271,000, and he received $50,000 in additional pay for working more than the 215 workdays required by his contract. (The average American with full-time employment works roughly 255 days a year.)

Since Fernandez has such a short work year, he was able to cash out most of his 30 vacation days to the tune of $25,000, the paper reports. The “low-income” school district – as it’s described – also paid Fernandez’s $20,000 contribution to the California’s retirement system.

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However, the biggest chunk of Fernandez’s non-salaried pay came when the district reimbursed him for the extra “service” time he purchased – known as “air time” – which allows the school chief “to add to the number of years he actually worked, so as to boost his lifetime pension,” the paper notes.

The one-time payment is reported to be worth six figures.

“Although air-time benefits vanished on Jan. 1, 2013, as a result of statewide pension reform, officials in Centinela Valley say Fernandez purchased his years out of pocket before then, and was reimbursed by the school district during the 2013 calendar year,” LA Daily News reports.

As “obscene” as those goodies may be, the most outrageous benefit didn’t figure directly into Fernandez’s 2013 pay package. That benefit was the $910,000 home loan the district gave Fernandez just over a year ago.

The loan – which Fernandez will re-pay over the course of 40 years at a very kind two percent interest rate – allowed him to purchase a “two-story, four-bedroom home in Ladera Heights, one of the more expensive ZIP codes in Los Angeles County,” the paper reports.

One real estate expert calls this “a super good deal,” adding that most home loans have to be repaid in 30 years and at 4 percent interest.

“It’s like (Centinela Valley school board members) are giving him free money,” the expert told the paper.

Ironically, three of those board members are refusing to speak publicly about the superintendent’s deal.

Fernandez isn’t feeling very chatty about it either. A district spokesman told the LA Daily News the school leader was unwilling to defend what he has earned legally through his contract.

The paper notes that Fernandez has done a decent job as superintendent. During his first six years on the job, Fernandez oversaw an increase in students’ test scores. He’s also helped convince local taxpayers to okay bond issues that have allowed the district to make major upgrades at its three high schools.

Those accomplishments and others led school board President Maritza Molina to conclude that Fernandez is “a great leader” and worthy of the hefty salary and benefits package.

Even so, Centinela Valley residents might want to ensure this kind of taxpayer abuse doesn’t occur ever again. They can do that by electing new, responsible school board members, and by going through any proposed administrator contracts with a fine-tooth comb before the board ratifies them and makes them legally binding.