Hinsdale District 86 hires a “Director of Instructional Equity for $115,000 per year. Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski joins Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson to talk about this and all things Illinois.
$30 million over four years: How teachers unions influence Illinois politicians. – Wirepoints
April 15, 2024
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If you’re frustrated with Illinois’ educational results, you may want to follow the money from teachers unions. In the last four years alone, Illinois lawmakers and political candidates have taken nearly $30 million in contributions from teachers unions and their national affiliates.
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski testified on April 10, 2024 to members of the House Revenue and Finance Committee at the invitation of Rep. Joe Sosnowski. Ted told lawmakers that the state’s property tax burden has become dire for countless Illinoisans.
Ted joined WLS 890’s PM Chicago Show to discuss Chicago’s worsening pension crisis, why the city’s crisis makes it such an outlier nationally, its negative impact on residents, government workers and retirees alike, and what Mayor Brandon Johnson should do about it.
When has any company persisted with a project in the face of stronger local, statewide and national opposition? When have taxpayers subsidized a more harebrained project?
It’s time to move. There’s no way I would pay for that through my taxes. If I couldn’t move I would homeschool. Whatever I had to do I would get the hell out of that school and that District.
We will see what is left of (any) public schools in an area where many do have the financial ability to have a school choice.
Your reply might apply apply more readily to many places, but it seems odd to make it in reference to a wealther suburb such as Hinsdale. Citizens there do have school choice to some extent as they do almost everywhere in IL, but if history is any clue they are greatly supportive of the Hinsdale schools systems if passage of bond referenda and school budgets are any clue. Complain they do of course, but still they routinely support their public schools.
School Choice now!!!
Or move out of Illinois and defund it.
Simple as that
Those who stay and pay are enabling this madness.
That’s what we are doing. We are not in Hinsdale but a similar district. We were horrified when we saw what our kids were learning.
Just keeps getting worse. School Districts are examples of the worst managed government entities ever. We could give them all the money in the world…and it still would not be enough. In the name of being woke and apparently trendy…creating this position, paying this money and providing the matching stupid pension is a crime. Where could they spend that money better? almost anywhere.
It’s a shovel-ready infrastructure job…shoveling bulls**t