Yesterday, the U.S. Congress interrupted its summer recess to rush thru a $26 billion bailout for cash strapped state governments. According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the measure was necessary to save some 160,000 teacher's jobs. President Obama immediately signed the bill into law.
But just why are state and local governments so incapable of meeting their teachers payroll?
Could it be because an astonishingly high number of area teachers are making more than 6 figures a year?
Chicago's grand champion for hauling down taxpayer's cash for a teaching job is one Timothy Bouman, a high school teacher at Noble St. Charter School in Chicago who boasts an annual salary of -- get this -- $632,000.
He is just one of literally hundreds of Chicago area teachers pulling down more than six figures a year for a job which takes up only 9 months of their time.
To look up the salary of a particular Chicago area public school teacher or to see all of the teacher's and school administrators salaries in your district, go to this site: Family Taxpayer's Network.
While perusing these gold plated salaries consider that the average income of the taxpayer who underwrites their salaries is $46,000 per year.
Congress' and Obama's bailout of their high salaried friends in the Teachers Unions reminds one of the old Monty Python skit about the reverse Robin Hood, Dennis Moore:
He steals from the poor
And Gives to the Rich
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Dumb, Dumb, Dumb.
That really is sick, for a public school teacher to be making that much money. They do nothing to merit that kind of income.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds a lot like the recent case in Bell, CA, where the community found out their city officials were making over $800;, and the residents had median incomes in the 40s.
And there are literally hundreds of teachers and administrators making more than 6 figures, yet they're always crying for more tax money, "for the children."
ReplyDeleteWhat money grubbing dissemblers these teachers unionists are!
Wow really? Terrible reporting.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this is outrageous, but don't blame the teacher's union. Charter schools in the city of Chicago are non-union schools, and the Chicago Teachers' Union is against them.
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