New Dist. 211 Board Members Face Contract Talks, Financial Challenges
May 8th, 2009 | by Brian Costin Published in Education, Twitter | 1 Comment
New Dist. 211 board members face contract talks, financial challenges @DailyHerald
The two new Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board members won’t have much a honeymoon, as labor negotiations between teachers are slated to take place later this month.
The current deal, agreed to in November 2007, expires at the end of the school year, leaving Theresa Tracy and Edward Yung thrust into negotiations. The 2007 talks almost led to the first strike for the state’s largest high school district and its 13,000 students.
Full story at Daily Herald.
One of the important issues that will face the new board members is teacher compensation. The Champion News has tabulated all of the salaries for District 211 for the school year 2007.
Some say that District 211 salaries are “Out of Control”
“Dist. 211 teachers can retire after 34 years at 55, and in the 20 years after retirement, each of those who made $100,000 or more will receive a total of over $2 million in retirement pension. This is an outrageous rip-off of suburban taxpayers. It’s time taxpayers held the school board accountable.”
“Not counting the Dist. 211 Superintendent and three Assistant District Superintendents, a listing of salaries for school year ending 2006, from www.thechampion.org, shows that of 937 employees, 317 of the 937-over a third-received salaries of over $100,000 per year.”
A Daily Herald report showed that District 211 salaries are among the highest in the state.
In 2005-06, the average salary for a teacher in Illinois was $56,691. Again, that figure includes more than just base salary but excludes some costly benefits.
The average teacher in the 94 suburban Herald districts made $60,000.
That same year, the average teacher in Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 made $84,000, the highest average in the suburbs.
With budget problems and comparatively high salary rates lets hope the new board members do the right thing and hold the line on teacher salaries, and start addressing thier underfunded pensions that are among the most lucrative in the state.
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July 5th, 2010 at 3:11 PM (#)
The schools in Dist. 211 have gotten more than enough tax money, “193,000,000.00” and yet education has slipped. Since the whopping 2005 Property Tax Levy increase D211 has slipped academically to 69th in the state while its teachers are the 3rd highest paid at 94 thousand per year on average. The District has a bond debt of 33,000,000.00 and last year in the middle of the worst recession/depression since 1929 raised our Tax Levy another 1,200,000.00. It costs taxpayers 14,071.00 per year per student in D211, “OUCH”. Clearly, more money does not equal a better education. D211s tax and spend philosophy needs to stop now. The Property tax payers in Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg and Palatine cannot let this go unchallenged because we can no longer afford the bill. Our homes have significantly decreased in value and yet our tax bills have gone sky high. Right now the Board of Education in D211 has plans to increase the 193,000,000.00 Levy “Again!!”
Call or write and ask them to stop. http://www.d211.org/robb.shtml
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