Since teacher salary is a topic of agitation, let's take a look at District Level office salaries. Schools belong to "Networks" - groupings of schools under a Network Chief. Each Network Chief has a staff. Currently, CPS has increased its mid-layer bloat to 17 Network Offices up from just a few years ago. Crain's Chicago did a deep-dive a few years ago on cost-saving measures that could be implemented at CPS indicating that there is swelling and redundancies in middle-management. With titles like "Senior Manager" and "Director" it's impossible to understand what these positions do. While Crain's numbers are from a couple years ago, the point is still valid today. It's hard to know why so many dollars are spent out of the classroom. Network Chiefs cost the District $162,500 each for a total of over $3 million.**This does not include Independent Schools Network, AUSL salaries or the Chief of Network Chiefs. The Executive Director of the Independent Schools Network in CPS makes $154,909. The Chief of AUSL networks makes $140,957. Chief of Chiefs makes $180,000. Instructional Support Leaders are members of CTU and part of the strike. The average Network employee makes $99,604.63.
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Terri Smith
10/19/2019 02:47:57 pm
I could do the math myself, but if you already have done, please publish the total cost of Network Administration?
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Jean
10/19/2019 08:48:12 pm
The total cost of Networks is at the bottom of the document...
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Alyese
10/20/2019 02:23:28 am
Great job! There are 63 people in CPS with the word Chief after their names. All of those individuals have offices, and staff. How much is Madison Avenue costing the taxpayers? No one has yet asked Janice Jackson to provide an itemized list with amounts as to where she spent the additional billion from Springfield.
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Marie
10/20/2019 05:25:30 am
$700 million of the $1 billion from Springfield went to the Chicago Teacher Pension Fund. Alyese, if you look at the budget website from CPS it lays out the itemized costs of running 600+ schools and the funding source for everything. It has been asked for and provided.
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Alyese Faibisoff
10/20/2019 07:06:44 am
I know. That means that CPS had $700 million freed up by the money from Springfield. Where did Janice spend that $700 million dollars plus the remaining $300 million dollars? I am quite familiar with budgets, especially large ones. The larger the budget, the easier it is to pad and hide things. When making a budget both sides need to balance. Padding is done to make it look like all money is needed. Not too sure if you are familiar with how the government budget works. If you do not show that you have spent all of your money in a given year, your budget is cut. There is at least $2 billion dollars worth of waste in the CPS budget. A district so strapped for cash is holding onto and maintaining properties in prime real estate areas rather then selling it getting money for it and enabling the City to get property taxes for it.
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Miriam
10/20/2019 09:58:55 am
Here is the post on what CPS Legal costs the District/taxpayers.
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Alyese
10/20/2019 10:22:34 am
With all that money spent, did the taxpayers really get good value? No. CPS is under ISBE. Here is another fact. CPS attorneys do bad work for CPS, then go private and sue CPS for the items they advised CPS to do. Look at the firms suing and winning against CPS? How many of those firms have former CPS attorneys on staff?
Alyese Faibisoff
10/20/2019 07:18:57 am
An explanation needs to be made why school administrators are paid to sit in empty schools all summer long and then get paid to take vacations during the school year while school is in session and they are supposed to be supervising instruction. No administrator is needed from July 1st until August 15th. If teachers are expected to work free of charge over the summer and attend PD's without pay over the summer, administrators make far more then teachers. Let them volunteer their time. In the age of computers, whatever work administrators need to do, they can work on at home via computers. Engineers need to be in the building to check machines and supervise capital improvement projects.
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Lawrence
10/25/2019 06:26:23 am
The real question is what happened to the money that was supposed to fund the pensions. The teachers get that money taken from their checks directly and it’s supposed to go to a investment fund for when they retire. So now that teachers are retiring the money should be there BUT ITS NOT
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