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Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:57:32 -0600

Yep. You can check out the salaries of teachers by name or district and by year here: http://www.championnews.net/salaries.php Not to suggest that all administrators and educators that bring in the big bucks aren't worth it as you want to bring in the cream of the crop, but it's hard to substantiate pay like $400k & up in the public sector when performance isn't stellar and your subordinates doing the face to face work with the kiddos aren't compensated like that at all. On the other hand, Forbes just had an article knocking police pensions and public sector pay, basically calling b.s. on paying a living wage and benefits to the people that make the public services run, including police officers and such. Attention to this kind of detail doesn't come from nowhere, but from those who are interested in seeing the reduction of government spending on domestic services and frenzied push towards a post-union work society.

Lizz K

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:47:19 -0600

Holy crap, Neil Codell was my high school principal in Milwaukee. Weird.

joshie

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:20:07 -0600

$411,500 for overseeing two schools? That's just insanity.

Chicagoist: Politicians Want Transparency in Educator Salaries

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