Skokie News Blackout over McCracken School Shutdown: District 73 1/2 Teachers' Salaries Listed

For the second straight day, Skokie's McCracken Middle School has been shut down and for the second straight day, nobody seems to have any clear idea as to what the hell's going on.

Nobody knows what's going on at McCracken
and the press doesn't even bother to ask

But Skokie's residents are getting used to being kept in the dark by their officialdom, especially when the Skokie Police Department gets involved.

Skokie's police may not be much when it comes to solving crimes, but they've mastered the fine art of stonewalling the public.

Two summers ago, when the Niles Township High School District 219 educrats got their panties in a bunch over some offhanded comment made by an irate 70 year old Morton Grove taxpayer, Skokie cops began wanding citizens as they entered the school board meeting to check for guns.

When a Skokie Patch reporter tried to photograph the oddly, police state like activity, the SPD quite illegally and unconstitutionally threatened him with arrest for doing his job i.e. reporting to the public.

Two years earlier when there was a spate of home burglaries on Skokie's East side, the crack SPD withheld that information from the public and press, saying it would compromise their crack investigation. As a result, homeowners, unaware of the threat, continued to be burglarized at a record pace.

And, of course, a full three weeks after a Niles North 17 year old was gunned down near Church St, the gunman has yet to be found. Skokie Police, as usual, aren't uttering a peep.

So now comes McCracken School Principal, Allison Stein, with the peculiar revelation that there is some kind of "threatening or inappropriate" behavior going on with her charges who use Instagram.

Then Stein, the $133,256 a year educrat, takes the drastic step of shutting the whole place down and calling in the Skokie cops. They, in turn, have called in the feds. Nobody's talking, the somnolent local press isn't even bothering to ask questions, hundreds of family schedules are upset and the whole town remains totally in the dark about it all.

We would argue that Skokie officialdom has been no more forthcoming with its supposedly free citizenry than Walter Ubricht's East German communists were with their subjects during the 1950s.

But that would be an insult to the relative transparency of Comrade Ubricht's Stalinist regime.

Below are posted, by name, the latest available teacher and administator salaries for the taxpayer subsidized employees of Skokie School District 73.5, which consists of McCracken Middle School, Middleton Elementary and the Meyer pre school.

They were garnered by the Family Taxpayer's Foundation, which filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to get them.

If you click on an individual employees' name you can get further data, such as teaching specialty, length of employment, education level, etc.

Keep in mind, most of these salaries are for 9 months of work.

Teacher Salary Database

Skokie SD 73-5 2012 - Download data NAME SALARY Alcala, Stacy $29,371 Amato, Mary Jane $104,482 Atanus, Martha $54,111 Aziz, Diana $12,814 Beatrice, Michelle $49,625 Belgrad, Lisa $88,796 Bennett, Chalice $46,829 Blades, Bethany $68,634 Blomquist, Robert $82,733 Boner, Lynn $73,443 Brewer, Megan $23,330 Carter, Paula $50,343 Chambers, Lynn $75,733 Chastain, Pamela $66,459 Ciok, Jennifer $67,708 Cohen, Cynthia $185,031 DeStefano, Christopher $84,846 Dillon, Robin $56,494 Domingo, Molly $56,002 Donegan, Catherine $212,805 Dorsay, Megan $68,859 Ebert, Rebecca $32,275 Eccleston, Catherine $70,235 Even, Maureen $103,008 Fields, Samantha $48,258 Fischer, Rebecca $89,459 Freed, Lesley $13,091 Freeman, Paula $75,265 Friedman, Lisa $80,587 Fronczak, Karen $72,617 Gammeri, Tori $57,617 Gaspar, Stacy $53,166 Gilbert, Arthur $82,568 Gill, Penelope $88,672 Glunz, Sarah $34,745 Goodman, Courtney $34,848 Gordon, Alison $130,652 Gormley, Susan $63,061 Gottlieb, Carol $84,587 Gregg, Jennifer $65,707 Grossman, Cynthia $67,810 Hamilton, Erin $58,172 Harshbarger, Michael $30,101 Heap, Jennifer $67,351 Herbach, Ann $83,430 Herman, Jennifer $77,863 Hersh, Michelle $46,660 Hess, Caryn $65,460 Hollenberg, Kathryn $70,255 Holmes, Lindsay $58,814 Hoppe, Lisa $58,654 Kavanaugh, Margo $95,640 Kelly, Megan $59,573 Kelly, Persephone $90,985 Klein, Lillian $82,593 Klita, Marcia $65,952 Kohen, Megan $53,766 Kosova, Abra $50,139 Kozlowski, Doris $66,459 Kreps, Hannah $57,741 Lau, Catherine $64,266 Lazar, Ashourina $42,713 Lee, Alexander $59,780 MacBeth, William $62,246 Mangan, Breanna $58,695 Maurer, Sally $28,001 Miller, Diane $37,790 Mishkin, Suzanne $56,860 Monak, Ann $83,288 Morrison, David $32,803 Mosher, Deborah $104,392 Nelson, Mary $92,014 Nizynski, Shelley $56,714 O'Brien, Thomas $51,254 Olson, Eden $15,379 Orso, Martha $81,450 Otto, Dana $145,090 Petriko, Mark $93,582 Priban, Jeffrey $18,333 Quinn, Jennifer $15,151 Reid, Julie $61,682 Rosenfeld, Meghan $44,746 Roy-Margolis, Suzanne $95,639 Sacher, Dara $56,002 Saltarelli, Pamela $51,982 Schippers, Cathryn $56,002 Scurek, Kimberly $56,002 Sharkan, Danielle $23,889 Shawver, Debra $59,646 Shrake, Susan $31,550 Sidler, Amy $58,083 Simon, Stephanie $52,968 Smith, Loretta $60,666 Stein, Allison $133,256 Stevens, Karen $20,262 Storrie, Esther $32,174 Sumerak, Scott $60,401 Sychangco, Marinel $84,788 Szalewski, Joanna $67,843 Wade, Sara $76,899 Williams, Keri $56,186 Williams, Laura $81,837 Winnen, Elizabeth $52,908 Wylie, Karen $106,674 Yom, Nam Jou Mandy $61,828

Those are the latest available salaries for teachers at Skokie School District 73.5, McCracken Middle School,Middleton School, and Elizabeth Meyer pre school.