On June 8, News Corp., a media company owned by Rupert Murdoch, snatched two leading school district administrators to head its new education division. Peter Gorman, former superintendent of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Schools, is the unit's new senior vice president, and Kristen Kane, the former chief operating officer of the New York City Department of Education, is its COO. The argument that high-ranking members of the public sector are either underpaid or overpaid has been made for years, although it has been revisited with fervor since the economy began sputtering in 2008. Comparing Public and Private Sector Compensation over 20 Years, a report commissioned by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence and the National Institute on Retirement Security in April 2010, found that upper-level government workers are underpaid compared to their private-sector counterparts. When adjusted for earning determinants, such as education, higher-ranking public-sector employees earn 10 to 12% less than their counterparts in private industry. This is why leading school district administrators such as Peter Gorman, Kristen Kane and Joel Klein, former chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, made the decision to join News Corp.'s new education division.