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Analysis: New Trier Twp HSD 203 school superintendent makes $304,135 annual salary
New Trier Twp HSD 203 school district is under scrutiny as its superintendent, Paul Sally receives a significant salary increase despite low student performance metrics.
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Analysis: Adlai E. Stevenson HSD 125 school superintendent makes $299,922 annual salary
Adlai E. Stevenson HSD 125 school district is under scrutiny as its superintendent, Eric Twadell receives a significant salary increase despite low student performance metrics.
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Analysis: Niles Twp HSD 219 school superintendent makes $307,395 annual salary
Niles Twp HSD 219 school district is under scrutiny as its superintendent, Thomas Moore receives a significant salary increase despite low student performance metrics.
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Analysis: Twp HSD 113 school superintendent makes $313,033 annual salary
Twp HSD 113 school district is under scrutiny as its superintendent, Bruce Law receives a significant salary increase despite low student performance metrics.
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Analysis: North Shore SD 112 school superintendent makes $349,842 annual salary
North Shore SD 112 school district is under scrutiny as its superintendent, Michael Lubelfeld receives a significant salary increase despite low student performance metrics.
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Analysis: Deerfield SD 109 school superintendent makes $357,859 annual salary
Deerfield SD 109 school district is under scrutiny as its superintendent, Michael Simeck receives a significant salary increase despite low student performance metrics.
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The failures beyond Evanston High School’s segregated AP classes
Critics are right to call out Evanston Township High School (ETHS) for its segregation of minority students from white students in several Advanced Placement classes. The move is likely unconstitutional and even if challenges to reverse it fail it flies in the face of decades of civil rights actions to bring students together.
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Palatine Rep. Morrison calls for immediate pension fund reform: 'Our cities are struggling'
State Rep. Tom Morrison (R-Palatine) urges that pension fund reform is needed to support the increasing number of retirees in Illinois.
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From Prairie State Wire
Wirepoints makes a data-backed argument about why Illinoisans 'can and must get back to work'
When Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed off on the stay-at-home order that essentially shut off Illinois' economy five weeks ago, few could argue with his reasoning. Now, though, a government watchdog group claims the current reality warrants opening the state back up.
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From Prairie State Wire
Illinois has enough ventilators for COVID-19 patients, according to state's data
If Gov. J.B. Pritzker gets the 4,000 ventilators he's requested, Illinois could end up with 2,280 more ventilators than it needs under worst-case scenario projections for the coronavirus crisis in Illinois, according to an analysis of recently released data from the state.
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From Prairie State Wire
More than half of Illinois' police and fire pension funds are underfunded, Wirepoints reports
Financial decay is happening at all levels of Illinois state government, according to the president of state news aggregation and research site Wirepoints.
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From Prairie State Wire
Illinois home values show little growth compared to neighbors, rest of U.S., Wirepoints reports
Illinois ranked near the bottom in average U.S. home values over a 12-year period ending in 2017, according to a new Wirepoints report.
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From Prairie State Wire
Wirepoints calls out Pritzker for doubling state's gas tax, breaking promise to middle class
Illinois state lawmakers have a dubious history of subjecting residents to gas tax hikes, but the recent doubling of the state gas tax to 38 cents per gallon seems to have taken things to an entirely new level.
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From Prairie State Wire
Pritzker’s claims of paying down pension debt “simply dishonest,” fiscal watchdog says
The recently approved state budget hardly makes Illinois the beacon of fiscal prudence that Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and legislative leaders claim it is, budgetary analysts at Wirepoints say.
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Maine Township Trustee Sweeney speaks out against losing right to vote on pension eligibility
Maine Township Trustee Sue Sweeney considers the removal of township voters' right to decide if their elected officials should be eligible for pensions as taking power away from the people.
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Wirepoints dissects Maine Township's tax crisis
As overall property values in Park Ridge continue to suffer the effects of the recession a decade ago, and school-district spending continues to rise, Wirepoints reports that taxpayers are left to pick up the slack out of their own pockets.
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From Prairie State Wire
Illinios education officials want half the state's budget, Wirepoints warns
Illinois education officials are out to get half of the state's budget—and they just might—to the detriment of the state's taxpayers, according to an online Wirepoints newsletter issued earlier today.
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From Prairie State Wire
State facing huge debt for public-sector retiree health benefits, says Wirepoints
Illinois's "other debt disaster" is $73 billion in unfunded state retiree health insurance benefits and more than twice that amount owed over the next four decades, according to a special report issued this week by an online news outlet.
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Wirepoints editor responds to critics, blasts Maine Township trustee's criticism
The editor of an Illinois economic research and commentary website told critics to “put up or shut up” after a trustee called the site a “political propaganda paper” during an open board meeting last month.