If the amount of money thrown at teachers salaries is any determinant of the quality of education, you can fully expect the kids at Oak Park/River Forest High School to soon be packing the Phi Beta Kappa lists.
In the latest available ISBE reports, a full 107 of the selfless public servants who are hired by the taxpayers to teach them were hauling down more than $100k a year -- and most of them for working only 10 month gigs.
And if salaries for Driver's Ed teachers are any guide, Oak Park/River Forest will surely have among the nation's best drivers.
Below is the complete list of 2010 teachers' and administrators' salaries for Oak Park-River Forest SD 200. It was gleaned from the Teacher Service Record, provided by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.
Among the highlights:
--- Driver's Education teachers making $142k, $124k, $117k, $113k, $91k, $86k
--- A $141k librarian
--- A $129k social worker
--- A $159k guidance counselor
--- A $99k Sex Ed teacher (what did he have to do to get his Masters degree in this?)
--- A $101k Home Economics teacher
--- Gym teachers hauling down $143k, $119k and $115k
I noticed that the megabucks Oak Park-River Forest drivers ed teachers all have masters degrees. This of course, jacks up their salaries under the teachers union contract. But just what do you have to do to get a masters in driving, and where do you get one? A Hollywood stunt-driving school? NASCAR training school, perhaps?
At any rate, during these disastrous economic times, there seems to be no shared sacrifice among the unionized government workers at Oak Park - River Forest SD 200.
Here are the complete salary listings in alphabetical order. For further data (degree level, years of service, gold plated pension particulars) you can go to the Family Taxpayers Foundation website
(Also, if you know people who sell luxury cars, yachts, fine vintage wines and high-end jewelry, you might want to forward this list to them -- it would be a boon to their sales prospecting efforts.)
Teacher Salary Database--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Oak Park - River Forest SD 200 2010 -
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NAME SALARY
Alexander, Devon $79,337
Allee, Douglas $81,224
Allen, Alfred $27,269
Ambrose, Brandi $97,679
Amorella, Daniel $126,103
Arriaga, Francisco $130,752
Avalos, Carmen $90,522
Baghri, Nimmi $76,917
Baker, Ricky $126,647
Baldwin, Christopher $56,301
Bardeen, Karen $117,284
Bardo, Nancy $100,464
Bayer, Michelle $122,140
Becker, Kimberly $119,797
Bell, James $79,707
Bellamy, Octavius $65,688
Belpedio, Douglas $124,714
Bernthal, David $61,340
Biasiello, Toni $65,242
Biggins, Colleen $134,541
Bishop, Janel $106,598
Black, Todd $122,380
Blackwell, Marsha $138,025
Bluminberg, Deborah $159,557
Bohne, Kara $74,693
Booth, Christine $71,251
Boulware, Billy $143,759
Brennock, Therese $140,894
Brent, Virginia $117,599
Brown, Douglas $86,137
Buhay, Jill $40,850
Burbano, Jaime $97,350
Burgdorff, Jennifer $57,403
Byars, Michael $94,261
Cada, Linda $171,838
Caliendo, Elizabeth $84,767
Campbell, Sandra $129,070
Carlson, Ann $116,596
Carlson, Linda $105,642
Carparelli, Annamaria $92,087
Carrow, Michelle $94,500
Chichester, David $105,203
Collins, Mark $96,748
Colquhoun, Jeremy $99,571
Condne, John $87,753
Conrick, Teresa $94,445
Corcoran, Daniel $70,375
Costopoulos, John $100,018
Coughlin, James $77,432
Craft, Dale $137,643
Crane, Patricia $102,073
Crawford, Eleanor $69,913
Daggett, Christine $117,741
Davis, Brian $104,309
DeBruin, Mary Ann $141,410
Dennis, Jason $82,761
Depasquale, Katie $64,871
Diaz, Kelly $60,922
DiVerde, Marci $75,378
Dobias, Danielle $72,096
Domanchuk, Theodore $122,215
Donatucci, Fawn $73,239
Donoghue, Sue $147,911
Dorame, Michael $83,681
Dunson, Betina $58,091
Ebsen, Elizabeth $84,969
Edgecombe, Jason $228,173
Erickson, Pamela $101,475
Ewald, Carol $41,143
Farley, Elizabeth $121,402
Farley, Kyle $57,373
Faulkner, Lisa $71,035
Faust, C $102,034
Ferrier, Suze $77,177
Fotzler, Kimberly $83,254
Fuentes, Julie $104,993
Gajda, Joyce $65,987
Galluzzo, Fred $148,420
Ganschow, Daniel $91,391
Gargiulo, Kathryn $122,147
Geovanes, James $115,053
Geselbracht, Lana $65,302
Gevinson, Steven $157,466
Giovannetti, Louis $97,542
Glenn, Elaine $149,697
Goldberg, Steven $130,218
Gonzalez-Diaz, Manuel $85,094
Goodfellow, James $137,505
Grady, Maureen $91,283
Graham, Jane $109,359
Greenberg, Jessica $50,580
Greenstone, Daniel $63,772
Grosser, William $127,568
Hallissey, Joseph $16,000
Hanson, Jacqueline $65,227
Hanson, Jamie $72,701
Hardin, Sheila $96,181
Harmon, Barbara $60,395
Hart, Jenni $72,208
Hasiakos, Peter $62,021
Heider, Sarah $78,638
Heidkamp, Bernard $94,302
Heister, Ronald $130,478
Hennings, Allison $70,865
Herbst, Joseph $86,449
Hildner, Naomi $87,812
Hill, Amy $113,559
Hill, Douglas $73,229
Hlavach, Elaine $124,331
Holtschlag, Kristen $67,539
Hopkins, Donald $147,531
Hostrawser, Peter $89,587
Howell, Jessica $38,508
Hughes, Vanessa $126,928
Hunter, James $119,672
Johnson Molho, Kristina $110,997
Kahn, Peter $106,836
Kaufman Fox, Elizabeth $76,923
Kennedy, Meghan $63,600
Kenning, Barbara $126,988
Kiedaisch, Laura $149,730
Kinnan, Glynis $84,167
Kleinfeldt, Daniel $113,413
Knake, Kristin $84,195
Kostal, Joseph $109,361
Kottmann, Donna $109,209
Kucharski, Rebecca $29,151
Lanenga, Jack $181,693
LaPorte, Danielle $71,868
Larson, Craig $129,792
Lecesne, Daphne $131,335
Ledbetter, Christian $118,964
Lee, Brendan $75,378
Lee, Lauren $74,129
Lesniak, John $83,351
Lessing, Avram $91,124
Limberg, Dana $83,058
Lind, Jeremy $84,056
Lombardo-Nitsche, Maria $59,237
Lopez, Isabel $78,295
Lovaas, William $15,889
Lundgren, Clyde $112,783
Lynch, Heidi $103,147
Maloney, Matthew $100,063
Markey, Margaret $116,596
Marks, Bonnie $142,301
Marr, Tia $101,688
Marshall, Catherine $130,793
Martinek, Vincent $123,620
Mazumdar, Rena $83,982
Mc Guckin, Cynthia $67,499
McCarron, Kevin $115,502
McGuire, Eleanor $67,499
McNary, Catherine $118,044
Mertz, Richard $118,846
Messer, James $84,246
Michalek, Nicholas $42,193
Miller, Gary $82,599
Milojevic, Cynthia $110,364
Mondragon, Christine $50,860
Montagno, Larry $124,362
Moran, Katherine $101,028
Mulvaney, Ryan $70,156
Murray, Scyla $90,746
Myers, Allison $104,035
Neuman, Andrea $66,612
Nixen, Peter $89,367
Noble, Paul $122,421
North Hamill, Anita $123,172
Novotny, Melinda $87,050
Nudera, James $142,941
Nunez, Kathleen $58,451
Ojikutu, Carolyn $103,974
Oliver, Stephanie $86,687
Paplaczyk, Nicolette $140,024
Pappalardo, Mark $67,912
Parenti, Joseph $75,824
Pearson, Patrick $99,916
Perez, Luis $92,043
Petroliunas, Ann $76,171
Podolner, Aaron $87,678
Ponce, Jr., Ignacio $76,708
Potts, Robert $82,158
Powell, Michael $81,971
Prale, Philip $173,592
Prystalski, Lawrence $116,715
Przyborowski, Lauren $63,386
Purvis, Derrick $65,912
Quinn, Peter $110,432
Redmond, Shirley $160,555
Remack, Leigh $87,451
Rosas, Sarah $95,862
Roth, Jenifer $91,330
Rouse, Nathaniel $150,406
Rubinow, Marlene $123,884
Rulis, Cheryl $108,756
Runyon, Joel $129,612
Sahagun, - $107,005
Schmadeke, Yoko $69,274
Schoenbeck, Carolina $77,328
Schultheis, Yuko $45,482
Schwartz, Steven $109,138
Silver, Jonathan $67,591
Slivinski, Ann $116,021
Smith, Christina $58,899
Smith, Lauren $70,304
Soffer, Michael $58,538
Sosa, Jose $143,805
Spilotro, Raffaella $63,383
Splan, David $117,462
St. John, Benjamin $24,683
Stanis, Amy $82,742
Staszak, Patricia $81,021
Stovall, Jessica $62,293
Stow, Kristen $84,631
STRIMPLE, Tracy $42,356
Svejda, Anthony $105,438
Tarrant, Tom $86,686
Terretta, John $87,868
Theen, Aviva $69,339
Thomphsen, Richard $113,219
Tolomeo, Dana $76,260
Topf, Regina $57,486
Torrez, Buster $54,883
Tsilimigras, Kathy $110,436
Van Der Meulen, Kathleen $68,572
Vance, Marcellus $105,472
VenHorst, Ryan $65,459
Vogel, Donald $160,522
Vogel, Mary $70,115
Wade Jr., Leandrew $43,275
Walker, Marvin $99,924
Walker-Qualls, Gwendolyne $114,826
Walton, Alisa $106,717
Warren, Patti $87,336
Webster, James $126,186
Weisman, Neal $112,296
Weninger, Attila $258,991
Williams, Gini $29,492
Williams, Jr, Tyrone $78,808
Wilson, Mark $126,903
Wirtz, Kathleen $83,002
Wise, Nisha $67,587
Woods, Mark $121,831
Wright, Paul $109,593
Wurster, Sarah $80,272
Young, Jessica $120,246
Young, Laura $80,057
Young, Mary $88,428
Young, William $82,591
Zabransky, Richard $151,699
This completes the 2010 teachers salaries list for Oak Park-River Forest High School SD 200.
Over 100k a year to teach how to drive, or run a home?! Good grief! We used to call such people "Dad and Mom," and they did it for free.
ReplyDeleteI know. My dad taught me to drive in a '69 Mercury Montego in about 2 times out and then taught me to drive a VW stick shift in an afternoon. Isn't it just sick the way these union teachers just lie through their noses in crying for more money "for the children?"
ReplyDeleteGood luck trying to get anywhere with this stuff- it's 70% union 30% admin on how these teachers are paid. The excuse is that we won't get the BEST in the country unless we pay the best.
ReplyDeleteI'm doing pretty well and I don't think the best teachers I had (and still remember) even obtained a full college degree!
Of course, you're right. And if teacher pay is so determinative of student performance, what explains the success of the Catholic schools who pay about 25% less to their teachers, yet have vastly better results. More than 1,700 Chicago Public School teachers are making $100k + a year and they are turning out functional illiterates.
ReplyDeleteI think i am worth every penny. Paul Wright
ReplyDeleteI know I have earned every penny. Why do you hide behind a facade? Potshots are easy to take when you don't have to admit who you are. You don't even live in the district and I am guessing that you did not attend OPRFHS. It is a shame that you have chosen to ridicule people that work hard every day doing work that is difficult and exhausting. A community organizer??? What are you organizing? Bitter assholes that should have spent more time earning an honest living, but have chosen to blame others for their failure. I am happy that you are not a teacher and I feel sorry for you that you can't appreciate the hard work of a dedicated faculty. Please out yourself. Please come to the school and share the reasons for your hatred of teachers. You make me sick. ---- James Paul Hunter
ReplyDeleteHey, what do you have against community organizers? There's one sitting in the White House right now and, last I heard, the corrupt government employees union to which you assiduously pay dues, enthusiastically endorsed him.
ReplyDeleteSince when, is it a "potshot" to simply apprise your employers what they are paying you? Aren't the liberal pols that your union has bought off always harping about the need for "transparency"?
And as for being hard working in an exhaustive endeavor, I have no doubt that Chicago's unionized $80k a year garbage men work hard in their exhaustive endeavors -- but in a free market, that is not the wage that such work would command, nor is your wage determined by the free market considerations under which all of the rest of us must labor.
Why don't you just embrace a true free-market, free-choice voucher educational system, rather than the current government-union education monopoly and find out what your efforts are really worth?
Wow! I made that much? What you dont see in those numbers are the countless number of hours it to earn a yearly salary like that. I coach 3 seasons (fall, spring and summer), direct 2 leadership activity clubs, work every home football and basketball game and teach a before school fitness class for staff and faculty. I am very fortunate to have the strength, energy and determination to make every dollar I can for my family. God bless america for giving me the opportunity to do all of that and teach 5 Physical Education classes on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, your number is low...you forgot to mention the $9,000 i make each summer in private industry.
How onerous are the demands on you that they still leave you free to pick up another $9k moonlighting? Most people in the private sector don't get the summer off.
ReplyDeleteNo one doubts that many of these teachers work hard and I'm sure you do. But a lot of Americans are working hard, finding their hours cut, taking pay cuts and being laid off.
It is, if anything, anti-American that an elite few (public teachers)should be insulated from any shared sacrifice in trying times due to their sinecures in a monopoly industry -- as government education is -- and given above market level rewards due to the ability of their powerful unions to elect the very people that they bargain with.
Do you really believe that private businesses in the education realm could stay in business long if they handed out cash like this?
They couldn't, but it doesn't matter for government employees because they view the taxpayers as an endless fountain of ready cash.
With states and school districts going broke, that may not be the case for long. The fountain is drying up.
Wow-what a revelation. But I gotta say -- it cuts both ways. I spotted one teacher I'm very familiar with, who is making in the $130-140K range, and in my opinion, he's an incredible, awesome bargain at that rate. And I know some others, teachers and staff, also apparently making over $100K, who in my opinion demonstrate no justification whatsoever for that kind of money.
ReplyDeleteWe need unions. Without them, working conditions and benefits for salaried and non-salaried people in this county would be far worse.
But when unions also create inappropriate, unfair, inefficient, and downright ridiculous wage and work rule disparities compared to the non-union sector, it's no wonder there's a popular movement to cripple them.
Let's keep the best of union practices and get rid of the ridiculous parts. We don't need a caboose conductor -- the train doesn't even have a caboose any more!
But do we need government employee unions? FDR didn't seem to think so and he and Eleanor were big union champions.
ReplyDeleteThere is something inherently crooked about sitting across a bargaining table and "negotiating" with the people that you selected to sit across from you.
With the $6 million or so in campaign funds that the IEA teachers union has pumped into campaigns over the past 5 years, that has been the case and it stinks to high heavens.
Also how can you determine a teacher's "worth" if not be free competition in an open employment market.
Are all private school teachers "worth" 25% less than their unionized government school counterparts?
It would seem to me that their salaries are more indicative of a real worth in the only way we have that can legitimately ascribe worth -- what the market will bear.
Honestly, most of these teachers deserve more. The only travesty here is that most English teachers are getting paid less than the gym teachers.
ReplyDeleteI went to OPRF, and don't have a problem with this. I cannot put a price on the education I received at OPRF- both from the books and from the invaluable lessons I learned from these teachers about life. You see the numbers, but what you don't have are testimonials from students about how these teachers changes lives on a daily basis. In a world where people seem to be always complaining that teachers are the unsung heroes of our communities, why are we condemning some that are being rewarded proportionately to all they have given and given up to make OPRF the gem that it is?
ReplyDeleteThe above two college kid commentors had better move back home real fast and get very good jobs (maybe even 2 or 3 jobs)so that they can pay for these salaries for the teachers they love so well and their subsequent life-long gold-plated labor union negotiated pensions.
ReplyDeleteI hear Wal-Mart and McDonald's are still hiring.
The IL state legislature is even beginning to realize that way more has been promised that can ever realistically be paid.
And if these are "deserving" salaries, why is it that so many excellent teachers work for much less in the non-monopoly private sector?
As a former student, while I think some of the individual teachers are probably paid too much, overall I think the teachers are being underpaid. I received an excellent education at OPRF, and value the work the teachers there did to put me on a path to success.
ReplyDeleteAgain, its something out of Econ 101. How do you determine value in a monopoly setting? Unionized teachers in public schools have a monopoly. Obama sends his kids to a private school, Sidwell Friends. It has higher standards for teachers that OPRF and manages to attract them while paying less. What does that tell you?
ReplyDeleteAnd facts are facts. Many school districts are going broke, their taxpayers are tapped out --many of them are losing their homes and jobs. Yet the teachers don't even consider "sharing the sacrifice" as Obama recommended. Something's gotta give.
I would like to see statistics of PE teachers within the Silver division and benchmark this to Oak Park. $130k to teach physical education and the program is not all that great. $130k to basically take attendence and then coach!
ReplyDeleteIf you click the link to Family Taxpayers Foundation (in the post) you can look up other schools in the silver division. By clicking the download data, you will get a spreadsheet that would enable you to look up PE teachers' salaries at those schools. If you know particular names, you can also search more quickly that way too.
ReplyDeleteYet we have the WORST schools in the country.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, most teachers only work 8 months a year.
I lived in Illinois for the first 35 years of my life. I live in Florida now and the teacher pay difference between Illinois and Florida is so very sad. Teachers with Masters down here are lucky if they get $30k to start. My sister has worked for the Pinellas County School District for over 15 years now and has gotten 2 raise's and last year a pay cut to be able to keep her job. Florida has the worse schools in the country. The children's education here is on the bottom of the list of importance by the government. The government makes me sick to my stomach here in Florida. I have a 4 year old and in 2 more years i am moving back up north just so my son can get a good education. My brother is on that list "Jose Sosa". I know Jose has been with OPRFHS for many many years. I think his pay is more than deserving for all that he has done for that school and many students. He takes OPRFHS to state every year. He has trained students who are now World Class Runners. Inducted into the Coaches Hall of Fame. I may be the young brother but i am so proud of Jose.
ReplyDeleteWhat gets me is when i see Chicagoland teachers go on strike...man it's sad. Teachers in Chicagoland are spoiled and have forgotten how nice they have it. Just like when i see professional athletes go on strike because their 10 million a year isn't enough money. I'm sorry but NO Athlete is worth that much just for playing a sport. This crap has got to stop.
Ancient Alien