Should Chicago school board members be paid? Legislators weigh compensation ahead of historic election – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

CTU Vice President Jackson Potter put it bluntly: “It’s a question of guaranteeing community representation instead of billionaires corrupting the board,” he said. State law currently bars Illinois school boards from paying members, and suburban school boards have long been elected nonpaying positions.
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Deb
5 months ago

Pay them only when students are at grade level for reading, writing, math and science.

James
5 months ago
Reply to  Deb

You must be a CPS dropout. Even a low IQ graduate surely would know that wouldn’t work for multiple reasons. Think about it, Einstein!

daskoterzar
5 months ago
Reply to  Deb

Yeah, the challenge is with CPS and CTU, no body does anything without the “what’s in it for me” motivation (as Chercher mentioned below). They hide behind the “it’s all about the Kids” statement for protests and striking for more money, but that’s really a lie. “What’s in it for me?’ doesn’t fit very well on a pre-printed sign stapled to a stick. Finding ways to motivate School Boards should be easy, as most are volunteers, have or had kids in the district and they care – or should care. They should be all about the Kids. But in Chicago,… Read more »

Chercher
5 months ago

The Chicago Teacher’s Union and far left Democrats are finding out that they can only get people to do their bidding if there is money involved, the old “what’s in it for me?” attitude. Everybody on school boards across the state right now are willing to volunteer their time. If the CTU wants to pay school board members they should have to carve it out of their budgets.

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