A continuation of the analysis of the current situation in Illinois by WirePoints: FACT 10 10. University administrative bloat. Illinois’ public universities went on an administrative hiring spree between 2005 and 2015. The number of administrators employed grew by more than 25 percent … Continue reading
McHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks, having met with some school district officials privately June 6th, has sent our Freedom of Information requests seeking the following information from each school district for 2010 through 2017: The total number of district … Continue reading
Here’s a table that shows school superintend and teacher salaries for McHenry County school districts, as well as class sizes. A Friend of McHenry County Blog did the heavy lifting in manipulating this data. You will note that Marengo-Union and … Continue reading
In the 2013 school statistics article published Friday, Steve Reick, the man who took State Rep. Jack Franks’ margin down last year, asked for salary information for administrators. The article on Friday had the first cost per classroom figures that … Continue reading
Here are some 2013 McHenry County school statistics–average expenditure per pupil and per classroom, plus average teach salary–to ponder. They were calculated by a Friend of McHenry County Blog. I don’t think I have seen average spending per classroom for … Continue reading
At the end of August, McHenry County Blog published a letter from long-time local physician, Bill Dam. Dam was brought in to clean up the Fox Waterway Agency and the Village of Fox Lake when officials ran afoul of the … Continue reading
For the second month in a row, the McHenry County College Board failed to muster a majority vote to raise the salaries of college administrators. Last month, there was a 3-3 tie on a motion to raise salaries 2.82%. Ties … Continue reading
While trying to discover the total salaries for administrators and faculty at McHenry County College, I did not make my request explicit enough and got a list of all of such positions and salaries. So, I figure I might as … Continue reading
The McHenry County College Board deadlocked on a motion to increase the salaries of administrators by 2.82% Thursday night. Previously, administrators were shopping around a 3.7% increase. That would have been the 1.7% increase in the Consumer Price Index, upon … Continue reading
The Des Moines Register is reporting that McHenry County Administrator Peter Austin is a finalist for the top post in Polk County, Iowa. Polk County has more than 100,000 more residents than McHenry County, coming with 430,640 people in the … Continue reading
