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| CUSD 300 union teachers rallying to milk Sears dry |
Posted below are the salaries of all teachers and administrators in the Algonquin/Carpentersville/Hoffman Estates area Community Unit School District 300.
That district runs Dundee High School, H.D. Jacobs High School and Hampshire High School as well as 13 pre-schools, 17 elementary and 6 middle schools in the Northwest Chicago suburbs.
It's been in the news lately since Sears, which was induced to move its corporate HQ and training facility into their taxing district, has threatened to move unless its promised tax breaks are extended.
Interestingly, Sears has been seriously looking at moving out of high-tax, heavily Democrat Illinois to 2 states, Ohio and Texas, which are run by Republican Governors committed to job growth thru low taxes and a laissez faire regulatory posture.
Sears' relocation would cost the area 6,000 private sector jobs at a bare minimum.
The union teachers and education establishment administrators of CUSD 300 have been in a frenzy over the prospect of the tax incentive extension for Sears. They don't want it.
The CUSD 300 Superintendent is one Michael Bregy who just moved into the $242k job and has 96 teachers and administrators who haul down more than $100k a year.
He says he wants some vague, unspecified, "alternatives to be developed" to save Sears' 6,000 jobs while at the same time milking them for all they're worth. Bregy wants "creative thinking" and a resistance to the "hostage mentality" of fearing corporate relocation.
CUSD's education establishment held a big rally yesterday to whip up opposition to the tax incentive for Sears. And if they succeed in pressuring legislators to tax Sears, it is almost a certainty that the corporation will pick up its 6,000 local jobs and simply move.
That reminds me an awful lot of the black sheriff in "Blazing Saddles" who threatened to shoot himself if he didn't get his way. (You can see the hilarious clip of that scene here.)
Here is a complete list of the 2010 teachers and administrators salaries for CUSD 300 as reported by the Carpentersville-based Family Taxpayers' Foundation's Teachers' Salary Database:
Teacher Salary Database
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CUSD 300 2010 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME SALARY Aalfs, James $103,112
Aboy, Cristina $0
Acevedo, Nicole $50,490
Achtstatter, Julie $35,825
Adame, Shiloh $49,349
Adams, Belinda $53,478
Adler, Leigh $77,328
