Showing posts with label Palatine High School teachers salaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palatine High School teachers salaries. Show all posts

Friday, October 14, 2011

Schaumburg District 211 Foot-Dragging on Transparency: Teachers Salaries Listed

Million dollar decisions are made at HS District 211's
sparsely attended Board meetings

For several months, parents and taxpayers' advocates have been politely asking the Board of Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 to stream their school board meetings on-line.

This is hardly an onerous request. Many school districts do it gladly to save parents the trouble of getting a baby-sitter and travelling out on a work night to see their elected representatives making decisions that effect their kids.

But the honchos at District 211 have been hemming and hawing and finding scores of obstacles. To hear them explain it, you would think parents and taxpayers were asking them to land a unionized teacher on the moon.

District 211, the state's largest school district, operates 5 High Schools -- Palatine H.S., Schaumburg H.S., Hoffman Estates H.S., William Fremd H.S., James B. Conant H.S. and serves more than 12,500 students from Hoffman Estates, Inverness, Palatine, Schaumburg, and portions of Arlington Heights, Elk Grove Village, Hanover Park, Rolling Meadows, Roselle, South Barrington, and Streamwood in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.

Those facilities are crawling with hi-tech devices and one would guess more than their share of techno geeky kids who could have a webcam up and running on-line in no time.

So why the High School District 211 foot dragging?

Maybe they would just as soon keep parents and taxpayers in the dark about some of the decisions they make at their meetings.

Like their acquiescence in the bloated District 211 teachers and administrators salaries. Here is a complete list of 2010 District 211 salaries, garnered from the Family Taxpayers Foundation teachers salary database:

Teacher Salary Database

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Township HSD 211 2010 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

NAME SALARY
Abbott, Charles $69,340
Acosta, Andres $113,227
Adamski, Suzanne $109,033
Adcock, Jason $87,388
Ahn, Mark $68,761
Aikens, James $128,158