By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--December 10, 2010
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Records show 10 school building administrators at District 46 were in line for bonuses from a pot of $55,000 from the Education Jobs Fund. In all, the district earmarked $435,000 of the $733,028 for the bonuses that Correll said are allowed under the federal program.If the school is in such financial straits, why exactly is the board doling out raises and bonuses to teachers and administrators? Does the fact that it is “allowed” make it morally right to use emergency spending cash from the federal government to give luxurious bonuses to workers while still crying poor and wanting to raise everyone’s property taxes? Residents are not happy, in any case. During the school board meeting roughly 70 citizens attended and were overwhelmingly against the property tax raise. So it’s a Merry Christmas in bloated bonuses and raises for the teachers and administrators of the Grayslake, Illinois schools all at the expense of the taxpayers of the United States of America. I’ll bet, dear reader, that you didn’t even know you were this school district’s secret Santa! (A video of the meeting can be seen HERE.)
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.