During the time of the settlement of the American frontier, when a community felt sufficiently rooted, it would take up a collection and put out word that it wanted a teacher to come. Often, the citizens would contribute their labor to the construction of a modest school house.
When a school marm agreed to come, it was no secret as to what the townfolk were paying her to educate their kids.
It's not that way today
Today's Big-union teaching establishment fought tooth and nail to keep the Illinois public from knowing what teachers and administrators were actually hauling down each year in salary and benefits.
They had good reason to do so, since much of the public would be shocked to learn that many of these supposedly high-minded altruists were hauling down more cash than the beleagured families that foot the bill.
That's why the Family Taxpayers Foundation had to file suit just to find out what we are actually paying these teachers.
Posted below, from the FTF database are the salaries of the teachers and other staff of the Evanston/Skokie CCSD 65. A full 37 of them are hauling down more than 6 figures a year for their 9 month jobs. And keep in mind that these are elementary and middle school teachers.
The schools covered are Dawes, Dewey, Kingsley, Lincoln, Lincolnwood, Oakton, Orrington, Walker, Washington and Willard Elementary schools. Also included are teachers salaries from Chute, Haven and Nichols Middle Schools and the Rhodes and King magnet schools and the Park, Rice and Early Childhood special kiddie schools.
If you would also like to see a list of Evanston Twp. High School teachers salaries, they are posted here.
District 65 teachers' salaries are listed in alphabetical order for the last available reporting period 2010: (Family Taxpayers just released the 2010 salaries, so this is updated from the initial posting.)
(For the benefit of Porsche salesmen, jewelers and the purveyors of fine wines, yachts and other luxury items, I have highlighted the megabucks teachers hauling down $90k a year and up.)
Evanston CCSD 65 2010 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME SALARY
Aardema, Kristen $48,208
Abudayeh, Stephanie $49,248
Adler, Cynthia $84,962
Akins-Schanette, Pamela $96,416
Alcozer, Anita $82,417
Alexander, Nancy $99,616
Alfaro, Karin $46,153
Allard, Matthew $81,527
Allen, Ina $87,176
Alvarez, Maria $70,558
Ambriz, Jessica $0
Anderson, Jennifer $46,433
Anderson, Judith $70,048
Anderson, Nancy $57,118
Andler, Joan $74,568
Apostolos, Montie $94,463
Applegate, Kathleen $43,628
Arceneaux, Jenevieve $42,539
Arenberg, Susan $95,016
Aristide, Diane $98,036
Ave Maria, Pamela $97,966
Badesch, Linda $85,713
Baker, Trisha $76,225
Ballay, Mary $49,834
Banh, Huong $101,918
Barber, Jena $80,877
Barbour, Karen $86,376
Bardic, Victoria $62,158
Barnabee, Margaret $0
Barnes, Lisa $66,582
Barragan, Margaret $65,633
Barrengos, Randy $52,178
Barroso, Maria $72,408
Bartholomew, Tina $89,905
Bartz, Joyce $105,807
Baskin, Jaime $62,998
Baskin, Jana $75,805
Basolo-Silkaitis, Margaret $94,916
Beckstedt, Linda $94,916
Behm, Martin $46,198
Bensfield, Aubrey $42,838
Benson, Nina $62,758
Berger, Alyson $81,267
Bergner, Jennifer $66,448
Bernstein, Lisa $79,249
Berry, Neidra $102,990
Bertalan, Cheree $81,057
Best, Kelly $46,474
Blacconeri, Monica $56,148
Blair, Vola $71,748
Blair-Collins, Frances $59,846
Blossom, Gwendolyn $82,337
Blough, Barbara $101,173
Blum, Eric $43,883
Boudouris, Sophia $65,178
Bournes, Michelle $67,618
Bowles, Emily $69,262
Boyd, Gwendolyn $100,636
Boykin, Albert $93,756
Bradley, Karen $138,241
Braeutigam, Janette $39,478
Brand, Michelle $93,133
Breeden, Ellen $47,588
Breen, Stephen $85,676
Brehm, Steven $56,633
Breitenstein, Marie $98,216
Brennan, Jennifer $66,928
Brigham, Christine $95,716
Brouman, Kathryn $65,985
Brown, Jeffrey $138,442
Brown, Laurie $98,080
Brown, Mary Baptist $153,732
Bryan, Barbara $0
Bulgrin, Lynn $52,078
Burgeson, Amanda $46,216
Burma-Washington, Marcay $87,336
Burnham, David $76,017
Cabrera-Rodriguez, Yvonne $76,001
Calloway, Vanessa $92,426
Candamil, Francisco $82,427
Canel, Marcy $115,013
Carey, Shelley $138,241
Carlson, Eve $65,278
Carpenter, Gayl $104,356
Ceffalio, Ann $72,413
Chana, Frances $46,198
Chang-Pisano, Marie $95,061
Charlton, Najah $46,453
Chase, Jeanne $88,770
Chisholm, Jennifer $59,478
Chung, Ted $51,303
Church, Amy $85,166
Cipinko, Gary $58,878
Clay, Carol $71,898
Clemens, Elaine $90,014
Clency, Pamela $77,732
Cleveland, Patricia $72,738
Clunie, Gloria $97,016
Coe, Djuna $93,656
Cogdill, Nicole $70,138
Cohen Stein, Nan $46,023
Cohen, Barry $50,553
Colquitt, Regina $83,937
Colville, Tara $68,590
Combs, Horace $82,467
Connolly, Patricia $50,298
Conway, Janet $70,553
Cooper, Nicole $40,738
Cooper, Richard $53,338
Cuzelis, Diane $79,934
Dangerfield, Shannon $56,298
Daniel, Jayne $75,227
Daniels Jr, Churchill $123,534
Daniels, Gregory $83,600
Davis, Beatrice $117,005
Davis, David $55,338
Davis, Delilah $73,748
Davis, Katherine $110,504
Davis, Lashanda $46,573
Davis, Mary $56,858
Davis, Renee $96,152
De Lama, Gisela $88,936
Deemar, Stacy $56,374
Del Vecchio, Donna $52,848
Delgado, Michelle $45,383
DeMuth, David $47,398
Denlow, Amie $72,238
Desser, Stefanie $68,783
Dickinson, Shannon $75,492
Dobrin, Marla $77,277
Doe-Simkins, Leah $48,008
Dolan, Mary $94,792
Donati, Siobhan $53,428
Donohoo, Shannon $68,928
Dotson, Sandra $87,939
Dougherty, James $142,034
Doyle, Catherine $57,248
Drew, Julie $96,799
Dziekiewicz, Laura $49,738
Eady-Morris, Darlene $94,916
Edens, Estelle $97,137
Elkins, Paul $40,255
Ellison, Katherine $91,790
Engelman, Guy $78,947
Engh, Daniel $92,626
Erf, Thomas $64,668
Eshaya, David $69,945
Esposito, Robyn $48,935
Essenberg, Louise $94,916
Evans, Brigette $79,332
Evans, Karen $134,417
Ewing, Jason $114,129
Fahey, Ann Marie $95,516
Falconer, Elizabeth $55,098
Fallon, Lauren $47,386
Farrand, Suzanne $108,299
Ferdinand, Stefanie $44,674
Ferguson, Thomas $81,060
Files, Steven $32,429
Fink, Jill $79,971
Finnegan, Ellen $69,978
Finneran, Vincent $47,300
Fisher, Susan $94,916
Flinchum, Melinda $43,766
Flores-Blakeslee, Paola $70,238
Fogelberg, Ellen $147,881
Fordon, Ann $39,075
Fosco, Michael $45,513
Foster, Brenda $96,526
Foust, Kathryn $83,177
Fowlin, Claudia $77,828
Fowlkes, Linda $118,713
Fox, Daisha $46,153
Fox, Elizabeth $50,671
Francis, Dita $81,427
Fratella, Mark $49,748
Freeman, Francine $85,726
Freeman, Susan $62,418
Friedman, Andrew $84,416
Friedman, Erik $62,128
Fritsch, Ann Marie $49,516
Frost, Janice $67,772
Fulton, Tracy $53,443
Gabeau-Chery, Marie $67,548
Gage, Erin $52,178
Galan, Raquel $72,692
Galicia, Lara $90,196
Gallagher, John $63,908
Garcia, Christa $49,998
Garcia, Erika $63,288
Garcia, Kimberley $76,859
Garcia-Carlson, Fran $49,700
Garman, Alyson $46,548
Garriques, Karen $50,359
Garrison, Claudia $70,093
Gates, Elizabeth $49,208
Gernstetter, Maeve $67,153
Gessert, Kyle $44,538
Gibert, Shannon $48,222
Gifford, Megan $77,466
Gilhooly, Catherine $38,771
Gilmore, Nancy $59,217
Gineris, Christa $46,448
Giron, Carolyn $85,676
Glaser, Margaret $102,061
Glick, Zachary $46,083
Glickman, Melissa $62,388
Gold, Staci $45,363
Gonzalez, Emma $68,128
Gorman, Jessica $46,923
Granada, Erica $100,888
Green, Louis $70,768
Green, Melissa $84,791
Green, Michael $74,067
Greenlees, Ashlie $48,435
Griffin, Demetrice $85,896
Griffin, Elizabeth $70,133
Grivois, Timothy $54,973
Grossman, Dorothy $0
Guthrie III, Robert $99,502
Gutierrez, Roberto $46,598
Hadick, Leigh $59,348
Halman, Jennifer $28,626
Halvorson, Thea $96,070
Hamilton, Kim $49,788
Hammond, Heidy $74,448
Haran, Amelia $59,624
Hardman, Jannette $75,177
Harned, Allison $63,053
Harries, Lisa $81,017
Harris, Melissa $43,338
Hasty, Christina $80,882
Hayes, Jennifer $0
Heap, Jill $81,897
Heckathorne, Jennifer $89,256
Heite, Randy $76,911
Helfand, Geri $95,666
Herrera, Vanessa $55,720
Hiller, Claire $84,827
Hodges, Amy $76,488
Hoefakker, Tawnya $95,728
Hollander, Matthew $49,594
Hollenback, Erika $68,788
Hollins Jr., Perry $50,078
Hood, Gordon $144,879
Horan, Terrence $93,656
Hoshino, Ai $44,844
Hubbard, Tracy $53,730
Hudson, Amy $90,796
Hudson, Paula $78,957
Hugen, Molly $48,108
Hunt, Rosemary $94,916
Hunter, Fred $121,879
Huston, Sara $68,038
Ibarra, Rose-Carmie $60,478
Idelman, Andrea $39,478
Israel, Sandra $45,498
Israel, Wendy $80,277
Iverson, Gloria $47,188
Jackson, Kimberly $43,162
Jacobs, Amy $49,153
Jacobs, Cary $94,706
Jacobs, Lorenzo $46,698
Jaddaoui, J. Noelle $79,057
Jain, Manisha $51,418
Janossy Jr., James $70,468
Jaquess, Shalana $55,156
Javitch, Rachel $43,488
Jean-Pierre, Elizabeth $55,358
Jenkins, Jr., Harold $112,277
Jicha, Susan $96,946
Jimenez, Carlos $46,198
Johnson, Jarod $54,238
Johnson, Kenneth $47,405
Johnson, Nettie $68,411
Johnson, Nicole $47,288
Johnson, Renee $95,116
Johnson, Robin $78,517
Jones, Frances $93,756
Jones, Louis $84,607
Jonser-Busse, Betty $94,916
Junod, Michelle $53,576
Kahl, Anna $69,291
Kamara, Esther $69,628
Kapuler, Carolyn $101,581
Karagiannis, Kathy $52,558
Kareotes, Maria $63,258
Kasbekar, Archana $48,457
Kasper, Michael $79,273
Keane, Erin $49,808
Kehoe, Margaret $100,458
Kelly, Colleen $87,176
Kelly, Meghan $49,833
Kelly, Michelle $62,463
Kerrill, Kristi $45,123
Kersnar, Christie $65,098
Kier, Laura $95,096
Killey, Alison $44,473
Killheffer, Judith $68,038
Kipfer, Amy $69,128
Klein, Laura $48,464
Klein, Roberta $73,299
Koegler, Carolyn $44,598
Koslen, Eileen $81,960
Kreisel, Cathy $67,178
Krugly, Andrew $138,241
Krulee, Margaret $80,217
Kulman, Lee $121,503
Lahurd, Kristin $49,498
Lalley, John $96,002
Lamar, Emily $52,478
Lang, Suzanne $72,288
Larmee, Luke $50,699
Larson, Mary $90,615
Larson, Susan $81,882
Latimer, Jerri $47,048
Laughlin, Jennifer $72,066
Lawrence, Claire $62,848
Lazenby, Taylor $50,343
Lee, Jennifer $47,618
Leggett, Sharon $102,816
Lenoir, Margie $131,345
Lepley, Julie $83,856
Leung, Helen $44,048
Levine, Julie $94,156
Levine, Lisa $36,461
Levy, Daniel $70,423
Levy, Lisa $59,638
Lewis, Susan $138,241
Lieteau, Anna $75,177
Likhite, Michael $77,427
Liversidge, Felicity $45,145
Lloyd, Jennifer $60,113
Logan, Cheryl $94,966
Lois, Jessica $48,448
Lopez, Marie $47,542
Losurdo, Louis $81,355
Love, Naomi $52,684
Lowe, Helen $88,372
Luciana, Karen $80,517
Lukas, Peggy $83,157
Lutton, Nancy $63,498
Lydon, Vicki $49,348
Macedo, Adam $55,693
MacHarg, Joan $96,256
MacHarg, Richard $96,706
Madeck Anderson, Kristen $68,803
Mahoney, Karen $79,595
Maldonado, Paula $95,857
Malicki, Lisa $13,885
Mandell, Theresa $85,676
Manhardt, Lisa $47,808
Maniquis, Raul $76,392
Martin, Evangelina $73,281
Martinez Black, Tyrone $60,538
Maslanka, Terry $79,664
Masood, Aneela $60,478
Matten, Dale $86,627
Matten, Kevin $46,903
Matthews, John $54,598
Mayne, Victoria $41,572
Mc Coy, Margo $71,398
Mc Holland, James $154,277
Mc Hugh, Sharon $109,065
McAndrew, Maria $102,036
McCaffrey, Emily $47,432
McCann, JoAnn $87,051
McCarthy, Sharon $67,598
McClain, Elisa $49,570
McDermott, Brooke $48,298
McDermott, Dawn $138,241
McDermott, Megan $75,084
McDermott, Michael $72,238
McGough, Bridget $49,908
McKenna, Anne $61,174
McLaughlin, Edward $64,818
McMaster, Katherine $69,418
Mechanic, Ilyse $89,033
Medard, Erica $50,897
Medina-Nicolalde, Guadalupe $46,798
Mendez, Sarah $99,596
Meshkian, Elaheh $88,238
Metz, Elaine $33,850
Metzger, Susan $102,976
Meyer, Tara $49,638
Micol, Jessica $66,999
Mighty, Lori $67,153
Millard, Dorothy $94,916
Minor, John $83,907
Mitchell, Katherine $69,083
Mitchell, Kristin $43,013
Mitchell, LaTasha $66,965
Moens, Keith $49,006
Mohrenweiser, Wendy $55,751
Mollner, Melissa $69,882
Moran, Jennifer $50,355
Moran, Judith $69,028
Morgan, Valerie $66,259
Moses, Lenora $94,916
Mosley, Maggie $74,767
Mouzayanni, Lilly $80,811
Moyer, Joel $63,523
Mueller, Katrina $46,893
Mull, Traci $83,157
Mullins, Cenietta $93,847
Murphy, Hardy $242,843
Murphy, Saronita $43,403
Murray, Tricia $90,740
Murtaugh, Timothy $76,557
Myer, Lauren $43,248
Myers, Catherine $49,495
Mynard, Andrew $73,018
Myros, Christina $61,538
Nava, Nicole $29,116
Nelson, Deborah $61,288
Nelson, H. Harvette $88,382
New, Cody $51,387
Nichols, Jennifer $70,492
Nichols, Sarah $66,545
Nicholson, Marcy $58,378
Nikolopoulou, Krystallia $98,226
Nolan, Kathleen $0
Norman, Melody $85,676
Novotney, Megan $44,538
Nusser, Amy $97,016
O Brien, Nancy $28,609
O'Brien, Jennifer $62,158
O'Connell, Carrie $57,218
O'Connor, Colleen $63,414
O'Hara, Robin $81,957
O'Neal, Emily $51,883
O'Reilly, Corinne $42,988
Obrochta, Connie $69,818
Odenthal, Alaina $52,943
Odwarka, Amy $76,027
Okano, Kathleen $108,214
Olivera-Alcazar, Lynda $71,557
Olsen, Mary $94,916
Opalka, Eva $70,093
Ornelas, Monica $53,703
Orozco, Mary Kate $55,192
Ortega, Consuelo $76,327
Ortiz, Stacie $0
Osher, Deborah $60,428
Otto, Cydni $95,726
Otto, Robert $44,378
Pais, Faye $79,934
Panagiotidis, Konstantina $84,252
Parent, Jennifer $60,069
Parsons, Felisha $83,917
Payne, Marlyn $94,156
Payton, Patrice $90,171
Pechnyo, Anne $46,648
Pecoraro, Rosalia $43,261
Penovich, Sylvia $0
Perez, Nicole $70,868
Perkins, Leslie $88,786
Perry, Paul $63,326
Peterson, Megan $59,078
Petrusonis, Anthony $88,638
Pettersen, Kevin $57,618
Philbrick, Margaret $97,466
Philippe, Kefira $58,628
Picchietti, Camille $91,900
Pickup-Kaplan, Khristie $68,304
Pionke, Elizabeth $96,122
Pitlosh, Tracy $68,878
Pitts, Jamilla $111,497
Platero, Maria $45,410
Plofsky, Tammy $71,441
Polaniecki, Sherri $67,668
Policape, Kim $82,697
Pomerantz, Mary $58,378
Portner, Felicia $94,916
Post, Kelly $77,997
Potter, Rebecca $95,066
Pouper, Kathryn $87,857
Pratt, Karen $80,627
Prescott, Patrice $96,123
Pressoir, Melinda $64,917
Price, Courtney $44,748
Price, Tania $63,108
Price, Tiffany $57,718
Pritikin-Berk, Ronna $95,866
Przekota, Felicia $93,446
Przekota, John $103,011
Puentes, Adrian $89,897
Punwani, Tara $70,216
Purnell, Elaine $76,452
Qader, Hosnia $42,256
Querciagrossa, Jamie $81,992
Quinn, Elizabeth $97,566
Quinn, Teresa $48,698
Raab, Erin $44,198
Rachell, Kristie $61,269
Rahlfs, Eileen $94,966
Rakow, Dawn $46,153
Ramsey, Ayanna $82,902
Randhava, Maia $52,168
Ransom, Heather $48,828
Raskin, Jessica $48,228
Rauth, Kathleen $72,463
Reebie, Helen $100,113
Reid, Karen $95,642
Reiniger, Michael $86,426
Reiter, Jessamyn $9,971
Remien, Lori $90,151
Revel, Margaret $65,648
Reynolds, Stephanie $71,117
Rhodes, Kathryn $85,926
Richardson, Donna $97,266
Richardson, Samantha $46,656
Rieger, Megan $62,998
Riemenschneider, Ann $91,916
Rios, Soledad $45,533
Rivera-Palen, Evelyn $88,801
Roberson, Kathleen $128,447
Robey, Michael $150,721
Robinson, Vonetta $67,668
Robinson-Karzen, Marilyn $104,407
Roche, Michael $73,139
Rodriguez, Emma $52,118
Rohrlack, Juliana $46,788
Romaniuk, Alina $50,378
Romano, Robert $47,008
Romero, Cecilia $47,258
Rooney, Kelly $53,069
Rosario, Cynthia $80,633
Rosenbacher, Susan $91,136
Rosenbluh, Karen $79,950
Rosenzweig, Jenna $47,303
Rossa, Denise $77,662
Rothe, Margaret $83,437
Rottman, Evelyn $79,707
Rouse, Laura $92,816
Rubin, Jennifer $53,531
Rumsey, Robin $54,576
Rutherford, Sally $95,016
Sagett-Flores, Beth $150,248
Salemi, Todd $42,681
Salinas, Ana $59,081
Salinas, Diana $69,203
Sampson, Annell $87,276
Sanchez, Lisa $76,959
Sanchez, Natalie $48,508
Santori, Christine $55,415
Satz, Patricia $98,291
Saul, Regina $49,618
Saunders, Stephanie $78,109
Schaefer, Monica $89,871
Schamber, James $55,023
Schiff, Alan $87,958
Schiffer, Monica $77,952
Schleker, Sally $86,476
Schlossberg, Jill $35,039
Schneider, Jennifer $75,444
Schrenk, Peter $52,548
Schroer, Hillary $52,828
Schultz, Kathleen $0
Schultz, Susan $167,687
Scott, Olin $45,790
Sebaggala, Jasmine $63,473
Secemsky, Gina $56,145
Seifer, Patricia $116,035
Serleth, Laurel $97,367
Shavitz, Lawrence $97,508
Shaw, Kathleen $95,911
Shaw, Willie $98,580
Shea, Joyce $66,502
Sherman, Miriam $82,787
Shimada, Joyce $47,923
Shomberg, Mindy $52,019
Short, Christopher $98,393
Shurbet, Kelly $29,450
Shusterman, Linda $97,549
Siebert, Sandra $90,296
Siegel, Andrea $95,521
Simic, Maya $30,789
Simmons, Robyn $42,373
Simoulis, Elizabeth $52,795
Singer-Sadok, Lillian $75,727
Skalinder, Carole $91,536
Skipworth, Alex $76,167
Skoglund, Christine $60,478
Slattery, Mary $62,998
Sloan, Cynthia $90,406
Smith, Colleen $81,057
Smith, Donald $46,198
Smith, James $92,726
Smith, Matthew $39,054
Smith, Megan $52,828
Soden, Celeste $60,142
Sokolowski, Donna $94,556
Sommer, Brian $72,883
Sovich, Angel $78,957
Spicuzza, Angelo $75,765
Spillman, Lisa $65,723
Sprague, Patricia $46,818
Starenko, Julia $91,046
Stellberg, Kerry $67,078
Sterling, Elizabeth $65,098
Stevenson, Julie $48,435
Stewart, Noel $94,916
Stidham, Brittany $43,248
Stole, Elyse $53,825
Stone, Carla $68,418
Stratakos, Demetra $61,268
Struve, Susan $62,320
Stumme, Sarah $55,903
Succes, Jerry $90,726
Sugarman, Tanya $58,466
Sullivan, Amy $81,232
Swan, Carrie $52,078
Swanson, Julie $74,767
Sweet, Meghan $68,878
Takaki, Susan $72,638
Taman, Mona $56,278
Tanis, John $71,398
Tanovic, Azra $49,798
Taylor, Denise $59,523
Tejada, Raoul $82,947
Thai, Caroline $43,598
Theard, Marie-Paule $97,926
Thomas, Jennifer $80,127
Thompson, Doreen $85,677
Thompson, Jaunitta $121,551
Thurston, Michelle $67,368
Tobey, Jennifer $66,399
Tobin, Thomas $92,726
Torres, Maria $55,416
Trayber, Simone $47,420
Troy, Janice $98,900
Turner, Lalita $52,438
Turrubiartes, Margaret $81,814
Ulmen, Julie $59,826
Ulrich, Barbara $97,926
Umland, Terri $60,528
Upchurch, Marilyn $97,443
Urbanowski, Amy $47,675
Urquiaga, Ellen $60,091
Van Ausdall, Linda $68,093
VanBuskirk, Christian $81,009
Vander Ploeg, Steven $45,329
Vanderkolk, Sharon $82,267
Venturi, Jean $22,010
Vergara, Natalia $57,759
Vick, Robert $82,397
Vick-Harris, Monica $55,102
Villarreal, Sonia $55,283
Wahle, Barbara $79,834
Waldstein, Sara $96,416
Waller, Rebecca $66,828
Warren, Elizabeth $57,428
Washington, Tena $98,756
Watson, Jennifer $43,313
Weatherby, Sara $55,478
Webber, Jennifer $60,509
Weir, Pamela $91,136
Wernecke, Tracy $41,113
Westphal, Elisabeth $71,468
Wharton, Amy $68,575
Whisler, Michele $46,948
White, Chelcea $65,768
White, Margaret $52,222
Wigginton, Sally $94,136
Wilcinski, Gail $86,680
Wilda, Joseph $96,586
Wilkins, Lyn $76,266
Williams, Chet $61,035
Williams, David $82,125
Williams, Kendra $53,643
Williams, Willa $95,339
Willis, Darcy $65,098
Willis, Rodney $89,046
Wilmot, Wyante $69,218
Wilson, Alesa $71,794
Wilson, Ann $48,015
Wilson, Keyatta $50,353
Wixson, Lindsey $69,803
Woelfle, Tracy $60,938
Wolford, Darleen $69,228
Wood, Laine $80,851
Wood-Livingston, Freda $71,998
Wool, Imily $74,007
Wooldridge, James $57,118
Wooldridge, Jennifer $55,248
Wright, Janet $63,679
Yelen, Arie $74,367
Young, Gail $79,377
Young, H. Shepherd $46,303
Young, Jeanie $85,144
Youngblood, Lori $62,408
Zalewski, Katarzyna $113,999
Zelinski, Paula $95,766
Zelonis, Sarah $81,657
Zordan, Nancy $104,407
This concludes the complete listing of the 2010 salaries for the teachers and other personnel of Evanston/Skokie CCSD 65.
Back then, teachers were also accountable to the community and the parents who'd hired them.
ReplyDeleteSuch is no longer the case, and not for the better either.
I didn't feel like looking them all up, but I would like to point out that the two people with salaries listed above $100K that I DID bother to look up aren't even teachers. One (karen bradley) is a principal; Kathy Zalewski is comptroller for the district. The whole list is pretty meaningless without job titles/level of education/years of experience.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, I think teachers should, in general, be paid more. And no, I am not a teacher, not married to one, not the child of one. I'm just an Evanston homeowner/taxpayer who values public education, and I worry that the good teachers will be driven out because the benefits are crap and they don't make enough to pay their student loans.
Amanda in Evanston
Amanda, you are certainly magnanimous in your desire to throw around other people's money. First, if you click the Family Taxpayers link, you can access the precise job title, educ level etc. of each salary taker listed.
ReplyDeleteWhat does it matter if Bradley is an administrator? She is still a member of a corrupt union that has learned how to game the system for its rank and file workers. $138 grand for running a grammar school?? It's not like she's the CEO of U.S, Steel or something productive. And note that on this new list she got a $6k raise over last year, this while most of the saps who pay her bloated salary are taking cuts, if they even still have jobs at all.
And Zalewski with $113k for an accountant? Don't you think there are plenty of competent bean counters who would do the same for less if this elite class wasn't insulated from the realities of a free market in hiring.
Most of these fatcats are teachers. These are mostly 9 month jobs. Anyone who has ever been to a serious university knows that grads of the schools of education are generally among the most dim witted and least ambitious students on campus.
Most of these Evanston teachers would not be hired to teach Barack Obama's own kids, since they go to the elite Sidwell Friends in Washington, which refuses to hire education grads at all, since most turn out to be ill-educated nincumpoops.
If there is a dire fear of losing these gems with their fat salaries for 9 month jobs and guarantees of 85% of that salary in pension for life, I say, let's take the risk, de-certify their union and open hiring up to the free market.
Half the baristas at Starbucks are more competent than these and would work for a fraction of these salaries. Oh, and they have student loans to pay off too.
Good news is that even the Dems in Springfield realize this gravy train is unsustainable and are poised to send back responsibility for paying these pensions back to the local school districts.
Let's see if you're still in such a generous mood then, Amanda, when your Evanston property taxes increase by something like 300% to pay to keep these fatcat teachers rolling in dough throughout their golden years.
Get your facts straight. I am on this list (not one of the 100k+), and it is incorrect. I teach over the summer to help make ends meet. Those combined totals equal my "nine month" salary. Also, if you are talking about principals and administrators, those are not nine month positions either. We also cannot earn 85% of our salary in our pension. Where do you get these facts? I find your accusations about incompetence funny considering your "article" is filled with inaccuracies. Bet some of those baristas could do a better job writing than you can.
ReplyDeleteOh please spare me. So you actually have to work a full 12 months. My God!!! What Torture!!! And you might get less than 85% of your salary in pension. Cry me a river. Only 14% of the American workforce even has a traditional pension of any kind -- so you are in an elite privileged class. As for the precise amount you will get from your union-scammed platinum pension, just calculate it here:http://www.familytaxpayers.org/pension.php
ReplyDeleteAnd while you're at it, why don't you check out the reports of the kindergarten teacher in your union whose last salary was $75k a year and whose pension is $155k a year:http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=2815
When you say you teach over the summer to "make ends meet" does that mean that you have been finding the maintenance costs on your Porsche too draining on your budget?
Your animosity doesn't make your argument correct. You're still incorrect and just angry that someone caught your mistakes. Oh and by the way, did you know that our pension is our social security? Teachers do not get social security. We actually contribute more to our TRS (pension) than the average worker contributes to social security. Therefore, our retirement benefits are greater. Also, the reason that the pension system is so underfunded is the state government has not contributed their fair share for 40 years. And yes, they do contribute, just like public sector employers contribute to social security. Please don't just believe the hype.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cga.ct.gov/2006/rpt/2006-R-0547.htm Correction, we get a reduced benefit, IF we worked in the public sector for 40 quarters, and then we would only get a fraction of that for which we were eligible. But most teachers do not receive social security
ReplyDeleteHey Lampoon. :)
ReplyDeleteI was going through some stuff and found this awesome graph from Dr Lott, that demonstrates exactly what you're talking about here. Had to share with you. :)
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2011/02/so-how-much-more-are-public-school.html
Another conservative hit job on teachers. You think they get paid too much? Teachers don't get paid enough for the work they do. Sure, public teacher salaries are open to public view but to post this with such disdain for what teachers and administrators to on a daily basis as if their jobs are easy and should be paid a fraction of what they make it asinine. Public employees and unions are under attack all across the country by the GOP and their large corporate donors, the Koch Brothers. It's funny how no-tax republicans and okay with their corporate masters footing the bill and taking advantage of working-class people to destroy the very fabric of this country. Why don't you go into a public school classroom in District 65 and see if you can handle teaching students in various subjects, teach to standardized test, act as parents, social workers, referees, etc in a system that continuously sees cuts in public education support from the various levels of government.
ReplyDeleteIf the government schools are burdened by such a morass of bureaucratic red tape with standardized tests etc. why doesn't your union support a voucher system whereby privately organized schools could circumvent such government nonsense. But you'd just as soon keep your monopoly, wouldn't you?
ReplyDeleteAre you arguing that your job is so wildly demanding that these kinds of actual salaries of IL unionized teachers are justified:
•A Phys Ed teacher $191,124 for a 9 month work year.
•19 who made more over $1,000/day including 6 Phys Ed and three drama/music teachers.
•A Drivers Ed teacher who salary is $18,205/month to teach teenagers how to parallel park.
•Six teachers make more than the Governor's $177,500.
•Top 100 Teachers average $17,603 per month salary
14,048 teachers in IL now pull down more than $100k a year and the $100k money-grubbers increased by 13% last year in the middle of an economic near-depression. Where's the "shared sacrifice" that Obama is always talking about in that?
And your pensions require the taxpayers to kick in an additional $48,000 per teacher retiree, on average an your gold-plated health care plans demand that taxpayers kick in another additional $7,500 per year.
And tell me about your 15 paid sick days and 2 paid personal days a year, which are payable at retirement, if not used. How many of the people who pay your salaries get a deal like that?
1,700+ teachers in the Chicago Public School system now pull down $100k+ a year and they are turning out a breathtaking number of actual illiterates.
Is it your big-Labor line that things would improve if only we paid them all $100k+ a year and paid the "best" $200k a year?
You are transparently not a serious person.
If you're gonna post the salaries of Evanston teachers and make comments about how undeserving they are to earn these salaries, then have the guts to post your own salary to prove how deserving you are of yours!
ReplyDeleteI am not a servant of the public. If you are embarassed by your excessive feeding at the public trough -- your excessive reliance on your neighbors to pay your bills, move over to the private sector where your income will be private.
ReplyDeleteBut just why are all these anonymous teachers so incapable of logically and coherently defending their salaries, pensions and perks and big-union collective bargaining powers?
They're apparently good at aping playground-styled name-calling, but seem afraid to want to argue by way of anything other than cheap ad hominem attacks on the message bearer.
Huh? What's the matter with those salaries? They are teachers, not ditch diggers, and they usually have masters degrees, extra certificates, work nightly on lesson plans, correcting papers. That's a perfectly moderate salary for a very important job.
ReplyDeleteI don't get what your complaint is? They are teaching our CHILDREN! I didn't mind our tax money going to pay our son's teacher a livable salary to live in our area. Why are you so cheap and begrudging? They aren't slaves, they are trained professionals? Please, let them have a decent salary, for God's sake.
Maybe you didn't get the memo, but government at all levels is going broke. What is a "livable salary" and how is it determined?
ReplyDeleteHow is it that in a free market, unafflicted by labor union coercion, private school teachers function on 25% less?
And as for ditch diggers -- I ran into a unionized tree cutter on the Evanston city payroll who was making in excess of $90k.
Fact is, even Obama has talked about the need for shared sacrifice during this economic crisis. Are you arguing that teachers in the unionized government schools should be somehow exempt?
False promises were made to these teachers by myopic pols and now it's become time to pay the piper. And the productive taxpaying classes have been tapped out.
Yeah, they're going broke because there's no more tax base with all the tax cuts for the rich and corporations. They aren't sacrificing AT ALL because no one has raised a dime of their taxes or put a limit on the illegal activity and harm they do to our economy. We used to collect TAXES to pay for things like roads, schools, hospitals--up to 80 percent for the highest earners in Eisenhower's day. And the tax breaks went to those companies and people who did something positive for them, built affordable housing, built factories, created jobs. Not to the friends of former CEOs who ship jobs overseas to the lowest bidder and Wall Street criminals who rape our 401Ks.
ReplyDeleteI want MORE workers to have a liveable wage, government, others. I want MORE unions. Our country was by far more profitable as a nation when we had stronger unions. BY FAR. Our economy has been decimated since 1999 with bad tax policy and corporate giveaways.
What Percentage of Federal Individual Income Taxes Do Rich People Really Pay?
ReplyDeleteGuess Who Really Pays the Taxes
I don't think anyone has a quarrel with unions in general -- I can think of jobs I've had when one would have helped.
ReplyDeleteBut even FDR saw the folly of unions for government employees.
Look -- the IEA teachers union has poured more than $9million into the coffers of Illinois pols over the past 5 years. And then they sit across the table from those wholly bought and paid for pols and pretend they're having an adversarial labor-management negotiation.
That is absurd.
That's why teachers unions have been getting concessions that most unionized private sector workers don't get.
If you're saying taxes on the rich are too low, fine. All but 1 of the billionaires in the US are liberal Democrats and I say tax them at 100%. But I don't think that anyone seriously argues that there is enough dough there to balance the trillion+ deficits that we have.
Cuts have to be made and personnel costs are the largest consideration by far. Teachers are going to have to sacrifice like everyone else.
And as for your assertion that all our problems started after the enlightened Clinton left office -- pullease!!! Wasn't he the big NAFTA enthusiast?
It suddenly occurred to me after seeing the title of the blog and responding like 3 times already--Is the joke on me? Is this whole site a spoof, or "lampoon" if you will, on the ridiculousness of right wing positions? If so, LOLOL at my lack of irony!
ReplyDeleteIf not, then I'm still perplexed at the relatively uninformed but excessively adamant nature of your premise.
And assuming you are serious and not parodying the ignorance of the right wing, just to follow up, my sister, who is a teacher in CT, said it very well: Tenure and union bargaining for teachers is vital to public education if only to prevent one important parent or school board member in the wrong district from having a teacher fired because he gave the wrong student a C, or assigned a book for 14-year-olds with the word "penis" in it, or discussed evolution without the word "God" in the same sentence.
Only in Evanston would someone find it inconceivable that the bulk of the citizenry might be actually outraged at the excessive salaries and outlandish benefits that teachers unions have extorted from the public.
ReplyDeleteOh sure -- collective bargaining powers are vital to insulate 3rd grade teachers from familial pressures. The cash has nothing to do with it, right? I thought teachers were always explaining away the fact that they are producing ignorant illiterates by telling us that parents were too unconcerned. Now we hear, they're too meddlesome. Which is it?
And as for tenure -- what a joke. Tenure was a product of the medieval university to insulate scholars from censorship by the Crown and Church authorities. Now it is used to insulate quasi-literate 6th grade teachers from getting fired for non-performance.
Fortunately, Illinois is now the last tiny island of teachers union dominance in what is fast becoming a sea of states that have ousted these corrupt union influences (see Indiana, Wisconsin and soon Ohio)
I am guessing you don't have children. I am also guessing you are entirely self taught in every aspect of your life.
ReplyDeleteHow did you guess? Yes, I am self educated. After a long hard day of rail splitting, I would stay up late at night, nursing candle stubs so as to be able to read after dark in our downstate Salem, IL log cabin.
ReplyDeleteBut why have you no interest in the serious arguments that concern whether public sector unions should be allowed to use their massive wealth and political muscle to extort above market salaries and benefits?
Teachers you should alll be on notice. A change is coming and the days of automiatic COLA's, guaranteed raises, pensions, overly generous benefits, etc. are coming to an end. The American Taxpayers can't afford it anymore. The idea that seniority and tenure has anything to do with pay is a complete injustice. Join the rest of working world and keep your job and earn your pay based on performance, productivity and results oh and learn how to pay more of your own way!
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