Posted below is the complete 2010 list of teachers names and salaries for Highland Park High School and Deerfield High School in District 113.
It could be of more than passing interest to the people of those North suburban Chicago hamlets, because their education establishment is pleading poverty and wants them to pony up more in taxes.
On April 5th, voters in Highland Park, Deerfield and Highwood will be asked to approve a referendum that would hike their taxes to pay $133 million more for the High Schools. After interest on the bonds that it wants to float, taxpayers would be stuck with an actual tab of $200 million.
The education establishment claims that it sorely needs the dough to patch up roofs and build athletic running tracks. But it might have thought of those things when it committed to teachers salaries that are positively among the most opulent in the nation.
Here are some highlights of the fat salaries paid to Highland Park and Deerfield High School personnel:
--- An army of 15 "Guidance Counselors" pulling down between $100k and $174k, with the average at $134k
--- A $147k drivers Ed teacher
--- 5 psychologists hauling in between $101 and $139k
--- $148k for a sex ed. teacher
--- 14 gym teachers each pulling down between $109 and $170k
--- 12 people called "Learning behavior specialists" pulling down between $102 and $140k
--- 2 six-figure social workers
--- Three drama coaches pulling down more than $100k including one at $171k (Did HP HS snare Sir Laurence Olivier?)
The complete list of salaries is posted below in alphabetical order. These are, in almost all cases salaries for 10 months of work and come with gold plated health benefits and uniquely generous retirement plans.
For a detailed speadsheet, go to the Family Taxpayers Foundation site. That is the group that filed the Freedom of Information lawsuit to secure public release of this data from the ISBE.
Here is the complete list of 2010 Teachers salaries for Highland Park High School and Deerfield High School, both in HS District 113:
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NAME SALARY
Acosta-Carmona, Jose $109,820
Akers, Alicia $139,245
Alexander, Earl $162,204
Allen, Lisa $101,688
Alvarez, Pablo $101,304
Anderson, Andrew $92,928
Antonakos, Nikoletta $109,275
Arcurie, Michael $25,443
Argyros, Katerina $92,459
Asebey, Eliana $116,277
Backus, Lisa $85,030
Bain, Shannon $124,462
Beaumont, Jeff $125,521
Bechtel, Jolie $86,057
Bene, David $174,656
Benito, Carrie $119,475
Berger-White, Jeffery $117,135
Berghoff, Lisa $61,085
Blanche, Julie $92,139
Bleck, Timothy $122,140
Bolek, Barry $219,360
Boncosky, Deborah $117,059
Brame, Daniel $150,828
Brandt, Lillian $147,861
Bricker, Amy $130,186
Brown, Marianthi $99,142
Brownell, Michelle $103,318
Bruss, John $113,555
Brysiewicz, Joseph $78,611
Bryson, Dawn $135,513
Bucolo, Joseph $123,960
Burke, David $91,242
Burnetti, Amy $56,846
Butler, Andrew $109,718
Byrnes, Cheryl $142,389
Caines, Kevin $139,240
Campbell, John $121,166
Carmichael, Mirah $92,025
Casale, Jennifer $113,454
Case, Cathleen $132,282
Casey, Stephanie $108,508
Castellani, Debra $83,802
Chamberlin, Daniel $118,619
Chambers, Stephanie $82,792
Chambers-Leven, Stacy $98,484
Champney, Geoffrey $55,835
Chang-Sawyer, Tsai-Hui $34,714
Chiodo, Hal $114,414
Choy, Lindsey $59,351
Chung, Eugene $128,728
Cocks, Ann $115,235
Cohen, Daniel $115,972
Conejo, Alexander $70,210
Connolly, John $121,330
Connor, Dixie $107,793
Conway, Timothy $171,594
Cordova, Herman $91,357
Cowell, Erin $76,777
Cratty, Cathy $168,669
Crowley, Helen $128,440
Dicker, Deborah $130,096
Dillon, Daniel $116,246
Dorigan, Diane $135,926
Douglas, Sarah $78,425
Edwards, Theresa $66,230
Eglite, Julie $34,450
Elman, Judith $129,081
Engebretson, Sally $129,568
Erikson, Lou Ann $150,235
Esgar, Blanche $115,786
Esgar, Martin $132,775
Fahrner, Bridget $72,792
Fairman, Monica $115,680
Fay, Aaron $60,563
Felichio, Julie $132,749
Finn, Deborah $109,220
Fiorito, Marisa $69,730
Firer, Jennifer $94,284
Fitzgerald, Liane $127,544
Fleischer, Holly $79,087
Foerch, Doug $158,399
Fornasiero-Johnson, Claudia $127,257
Fornero, George $269,335
Forrester, Brian $65,358
Freedman, Michelle $127,564
Friedrich, Lesa $138,929
Gapinski, Robin $126,364
Garcia-Alonso, Pedro $113,221
Garza, Eduardo $63,854
Gasper, Kip $160,136
Gausselin, Gail $114,560
George, Karen $39,042
Gervase, Michele $64,079
Geuder, Brandon $83,331
Gibbons, Thomas $88,746
Gilbert, Aliza $119,508
Gilbert, Sandra $162,259
Ginopolis, Jennifer $116,451
Gonzalez, Lydia $135,790
Gordils-Hamm, Glorianne $73,116
Gordon, Stephanie $89,358
Gorleski, John $148,473
Gorman, Susan $98,103
Graafsma, Regina $65,459
Grady, Richard $135,376
Gratz, Andrea $185,379
Greene, Carol $132,534
Griffith, Audris $172,549
Grindel, Ellen $133,222
Grott, David $130,338
Gutwillig, Judith $120,890
Hagopian, Nairy $100,640
Halpern, Stacy $90,019
Hanson, Alicia $92,177
Harris, Paul $132,906
Harrison, Michael $108,097
Harvey, Barbara $122,684
Hebson, Suzan $209,721
Helkowski, Eric $73,366
Hemmila, Elena $67,093
Hermanowicz, Patricia $163,031
Hernandez Florez, Maria Jose $74,704
Hernandez, Heather $85,017
Hess, Joshua $81,208
Hicks Marx, Erin $125,715
Hile, James $149,561
Hill, Christine $125,769
Hill, Howard $103,334
Hindson, Amy $108,978
Hinton, Michael $119,505
Hirsch, David $78,434
Hirsch, Glynis $130,765
Hobson, Stephen $124,563
Hothem, Maria $58,489
Hoyer, Jeffry $120,199
Hubbard, Bradford $95,765
Huff, Peter $134,524
Hurtig, Elliott $154,456
Isaacson, Anne $135,147
Jamroz, Roxanne $61,401
Johnson, Andrea $154,919
Johnson, Susan $116,613
Johnson, William $129,185
Kadel, Emily $69,909
Kalnes, Daniel $26,140
Kaplan, Laura $14,471
Kaplan, Susan $152,731
Kapsimalis, Gregory $109,741
Kauffman, Jeremy $116,240
Kean, Christopher $98,744
Kellogg, Sharon $73,354
Kempton, Lucy $131,095
Kilpatrick, Laurel $113,469
King, Kimberly $65,564
Klaas, Mirielle $70,725
Koenigsknecht, Joseph $191,569
Kolze, Maralyn $120,419
Koulentes, Thomas $133,627
Kramer, Kenneth $110,781
Kravets, Mary $153,528
Krull, Gwendolyn $89,868
Kulchawik, Carol $123,337
Ladron De Guevara, Mercedes $56,082
Lara, Rebecca $133,731
Larson, Mark $151,997
Lavin, Jerold $53,632
Lawlor, Neil $87,004
Lee, Soo $99,525
Legis-Portincaso, Marisol $58,524
Leibfried, Scott $104,323
Leighton, Joshua $99,512
Lempa, Cristee $109,130
Levi, Charles $51,020
Levin, Leslie $83,949
Lewicki, Deborah $67,375
Lopez, Claudia $66,689
Loubieres, Olivier $101,908
Lucchese, Jennifer $104,584
Lucke, Kerry $134,814
Luehr, Gayle $170,011
Luepke, Judi $125,080
Lukens, Brian $63,955
Lusson, Paul $69,976
Lynes-Campbell, Sarah $51,841
Lynn, Joseph $124,363
Madsen, Edith $136,680
Maita, Nina $69,236
Mallon, Eden $53,088
Mansfield, Elizabeth $108,238
Mansfield, Katrina $61,498
Marsh, Kevin $156,347
Martin, Stephanie $65,228
Mc Donald, John $70,522
McCord, Don $132,821
McKendrick, Daniel $80,434
Misfeldt, Genevieve $72,297
Mitran, Florin $39,746
Mohyuddin, Faisal $81,557
Monroe, Roberta $134,880
Montague, Mary Crystal $80,533
Montgomery, Gregg $109,075
Moran, Michael $75,621
Morris, Sara $80,539
Morris, Steven $129,035
Morrison, William $131,708
Motluck, Mark $99,374
Motzko, John $121,186
Muldrow, Michael $115,003
Myers, Carol $170,981
Nahigian, Lauren $62,800
Navickas, Jennifer $82,115
Navickas, Joseph $91,452
Nelson, Lars $94,684
Nevarez, Nancy $64,603
Nice, Suzanne $101,610
Novotny, Blake $103,329
O'Malley Jr., Michael $80,228
Obinger, Barbara $123,840
Ochsner, Jennifer $55,814
Oliver, Robin $99,443
Otto, Victoria $111,167
Owens, Sheri $151,475
Palmberg, J. Benjamin $72,474
Palmberg, Sarah $78,250
Papastathis, Alesia $107,325
Pappadimas, Gus $84,303
Pappas, Catherine $130,086
Parciak, Gary $76,757
Pashtan, Hanna $75,528
Patterson, Elisabeth $117,739
Pechter, Marc $125,815
Pepsnik, Cathleen $112,262
Perlman, Elizabeth $70,785
Peters, Anthony $94,361
Petersen, Richenda $96,195
Peterson, Lizabeth $107,810
Piggott, Kristen $58,341
Pike, Miriam $157,115
Piorkowski, Kathryn $71,551
Piscitello, Andrew $48,133
Plata, Koren $55,120
Polite, Lindsay $75,312
Pujara, Kunal $119,125
Quagliana, Hilary $95,506
Ratajczyk, Bruce $147,362
Regan, Herb $127,188
Riendeau, Diane $110,052
Rigler, Neil $124,540
Riley, Christopher $118,513
Robertson, Elizabeth $138,990
Rockaitis, Ryan $103,319
Rodriguez, Angel $14,676
Roller-Wynhoff, Katherine $100,547
Rose, Steve $110,749
Rosenthal, Joshua $88,475
Rosenzweig, Michael $149,808
Ruiz, Robert $128,548
Runyan, Jeremy $91,300
Saleniek, Edgar $144,891
Sallee, Sepideh $72,655
Salmon, Janet $100,196
Sanchez, Beth $133,438
Santillan, Kristina $36,451
Sapyta, Tiffany $85,920
Sassen, Patrick $125,697
Saxman, Christine $84,682
Scane, Brian $69,492
Schriner, Christina $83,739
Schroeder, Stacey $50,436
Schuett, Carrie $88,408
Schwartz, Brett $91,729
Schwartz, Jody $147,549
Settles, Krista $111,096
Shah, Lisa $87,041
Shahidpour, Negar $58,886
Shallenbarger, Scott $135,933
Shirley, David $110,765
Siegel, Holly $107,344
Silber, Katherine $80,945
Sirois, Timothy $140,420
Sloot, Kelly $93,063
Smith, Cheryl $106,665
Smith, Jason $61,145
Solis, Stephanie $94,606
Stafford, William $92,299
Stasiorowski, Jaime $62,798
Stephenitch, Susan $121,652
Stillwell, Loren $99,997
Straka, Katherine $73,342
Studnitzer, Staci $56,565
Sullivan, John $123,382
Summy, Jeff $99,060
Sutherland, Richard $124,061
Svetlik, Steven $87,715
Swanson, Bradley $203,275
Swanson, Paul $127,742
Sweeney, Jean $111,022
Sweeney, Nathan $103,979
Tanimoto, Eri $125,715
Tanner, Shawn $56,351
Tenopir, Kurtis $118,200
Tenus, Katherine $36,292
Thompson, Ana $73,024
Tiveron, Derrick $81,595
Trom, Karen $125,715
Tuckey, David $126,693
Vazquez, Luis $135,045
Velleuer, Ronald $132,727
Verisario, Brian $113,435
Vida, Heather $66,577
Villanueva, Jesse $96,529
Vogelsang, Thomas $115,918
Vora, Jigar $87,523
Wahrenbrock, Dana $71,934
Waller, Elizabeth $74,191
Wallrab, Kristen $76,108
Wang, Weifang $81,029
Washburn, Adam $73,540
Wathen, Charles $152,586
Watson, Alexandrea $91,507
Weiland, Jonathan $128,250
Weinstein, Marsha $140,734
Weisman, Lee $134,491
Weiss, Lynn $65,694
Wentz, Eric $136,223
Wichner, Sandra $71,366
Williams, Kenneth $138,129
Williams, Laurie $111,989
Winer, Elaine $134,455
Winiecki, Steven $137,597
Wolf, Michael $103,838
Wolf, Robin $137,238
Wolfe, Warren $120,372
Wong, George $19,258
Wright, Casey $125,664
Zientara, Melissa $102,733
Zima, Robert $130,583
That completes the list of 2010 salaries for teachers at Highland Park High School in Illinois High School District 113.
Interesting - don't know who put this site together - FYI this is for all District 113 employees not just HPHS teachers. Also - the teachers are not unionized, so there is no union contract. Wonder how much the you and the rest of the district residents earn - let's publish that list and compare before we start judging whether these people are making too much or too little.
ReplyDeleteThat is a silly remark. The median household income in HP is $148k. Several of the "guidance counselors" make considerably more than that for a level of skill that would certainly not garner that in the private sector. Most driving instructors in the real world make betw. $20k and $40k. So why does HP HS pay theirs $147k. That is crazy. Pay is determined by what someone will accept to perform a task in a free market. That has nothing to do with what others locally might be making. Also public employees are public servants. We pay their salaries, that is why they are public information.
ReplyDeleteI am an HP resident. I am sick. Great story.
ReplyDeleteThe District 113 School Board voted to put a $133 Million referendum on the April ballot. The plan includes wasteful spending and
ReplyDeletewill cause tax increases. Federal and State governments are broke. It is the wrong plan at the wrong time. The $133 Million plan will cost taxpayers over $200 Million with interest. 47% is for Athletics. My point is this: it is not the facilities that make the school, it is having great teachers and motivated students. Our high schools have that. It is the people that make the school.We need to shoot for adequate facilities. Not state-of-the-art, not world class, but adequate. That’s what we can afford, plain and simple.
Here is a site that does a great job telling the whole story: http://www.educationfirstin113.org
ReplyDelete$35,453,567 in total salaries with an average of $105,203 per teacher. How many companies over last 3 years did not have a layoff, paid almost all health care and pension costs (in addition to salaries) and did not ask staff to take pay cuts.
ReplyDeleteI work in a poor district not far from HP. When our schools had need we had our pay frozen to help cover it. The tax payers were not asked for more, and we make much less to begin with. I might not have liked it, but I understood it. Has a pay freeze been considered to help this district?
ReplyDeletePart of the reason the buildings are falling apart is because most of the money for things like that is instead going to pay off pensions and health care costs of the teachers and administrators. Very little actually goes toward anything "for the children!"
ReplyDeleteThere are many fine educators who live in HP and work for other nearby suburban school districts who offer substantially lower compensation. The Wall Street Journal today, 3/19/11 talked about local governments holding the line on compensation and described a community that would not offer a raise to a city manager type position, the person left for a better offer and they replaced the position with someone equally qualified (20+ years experience) for far less than they were paying. The average teacher is paid $105,000+ generous benefits in HP. If the average was $80,000 there would still be a line stretching blocks long to apply to work in HP schools. This is because that is far more than districts 10 - 20 minutes away pay for the same job and teachers who are equally as qualified and live in HP and know that for a fact.
ReplyDeleteOh, that story in Wall Street, over 100 people applied for that position, no shortage of qualified candidates.
ReplyDeleteSo what's the point? If the school performs in the top 2% of achievement, as DF and HP do, staff should be paid accordigly. They have teachers with advance degrees, graduating from top tier schools who, in my estimation as a corporate exec, would probably command similar private sector salaries had they chosen that path.
ReplyDeleteFound this article, Lampoon, and thought you might be interested in it. :)
ReplyDeleteAmerican Thinker Blog: Let's hear it for the 'working class' teachers of Illinois!.
To the "corporate exec" above: Did you pay your employees based on some vague guess as to what they "probably" would command in some hypothetical realm? No. You offered what they would accept based on market considerations. How does that work in a monopoly situation, like this, where powerful unions often determine who sits opposite them at the bargaining table? And based on what are these schools in the top 2% of acheivement?
ReplyDeleteBesides, given the state of American public education, wouldn't that be like being beauty queen at a leper colony?
Keep in mind how many hours these teachers put in before and after school. Many of these teachers are coaches or activity sponsors. A typical AP teacher probably has as much grading / prep work for the next day's class as the students have homework. In order to have a great school you need to have great teachers.
ReplyDeleteWell I agree that great teachers are really a necessary prerequisite for good education. But the question becomes, do you really need this kind of remuneration with all the perks, to induce great teachers?
ReplyDeleteAnd the fact that these salaries are usually wrested out of the employers at the point of a gun by the powerful teachers unions makes one question the whole system by which government school teachers' salaries are determined.
first of all YES...if you want monkeys then pay peanuts...if you want the best it will cost you...District 113 has the best teachers, bravo to them for fairly compensating them!...secondly, they are not in a union...do your research!...so easy to just look at the numbers and form an opinion...shadow a District 113 teacher for a week...I'm not sure you could handle the job!
ReplyDeleteDo try to read thoroughly, anonymous one.
ReplyDeleteWhere in the above text do you see the word union? Or any reference thereto?
And by what measure do you come to the conclusion that these are the best teachers money can buy?
Catholic prep schools seem to do exceedingly well with a workforce whose compensation averages 25% less. And there is no shortage of qualified applicants for their job openings.
Tell me, are Highland Park and Deerfield kids all going to be qualified for Hollywood stunt driving because their drivers ed teacher hauls down $148k?
Are they all going to become sexual athletes because they have a $148k sex ed teacher instructing them as to the proper way to affix a condom?
And if opulent salaries are a determinant of quality education, please tell me about the 1,800 teachers in the Chicago Public Schools (they are unionized)who pull down $100k or more a year.
You used the term monkeys, not me.
The people and the teachers on the "Northshore" are clueless. When does reality come in to play? Anyone making over $115K a year is in the upper 10% of our country! (working more than 9 mos a year too).I have lived here my whole life(60 years), this is embarassing. WHINERS!!!
ReplyDeleteThere are 2 high schools in Township District 113--Highland Park and Deerfield. George V. Fornero, the superintendent, is openly gay. He has espoused a very liberal agenda that is almost as bullying as what he supposedly is trying to prevent. Right now, he seems intent on pleasing the jocks of the community by spending a lot on athletic facilities. District 113 was going to refinance $27,000,000 in bonds due to expire in 2012 and 2013 in addition to the $133,000,000 they were requesting via the defeated referendum for a total of $160,000,000. Fornero was responsible for a new high school in Ann Arbor, MI that was supposed to cost $154,000,000. It was not delivered on time and had cost overruns of $6,000,000 for a total of $160,000,000. Coincidence? Highland Park High School is not a top tier school based on testing as they have poor Latino students who pull down the average scores due to the fact that English is a second language for them. Both high schools, like many other schools in this area, are top heavy with administrative personnel which increases the payroll as well. Kudos to you for doing this blog.
ReplyDeleteI attended Highland Park High School.... Those teachers do NOT deserve those salaries..They weren't amazing at all. Thanks for posting this..I'm sick to my stomach now.
ReplyDeleteFYI: Learning Behaviorist specialists are special education teachers... not just some people
ReplyDeleteThe teachers deserve all that and more. Oh, my opinion counts the most because I actually work there.
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