Yesterday, the U.S. Congress interrupted its summer recess to rush thru a $26 billion bailout for cash strapped state governments. According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the measure was necessary to save some 160,000 teacher's jobs. President Obama immediately signed the bill into law.
But just why are state and local governments so incapable of meeting their teachers payroll?
Could it be because an astonishingly high number of area teachers are making more than 6 figures a year?
Chicago's grand champion for hauling down taxpayer's cash for a teaching job is one Timothy Bouman, a high school teacher at Noble St. Charter School in Chicago who boasts an annual salary of -- get this -- $632,000.
Read the entire story at http://chicagolampoon.blogspot.com/2010/08/chicago-has-public-school-teacher.html
Look up Teacher/Principals salaries http://familytaxpayers.org/salary.php
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