$100,000 Illinois (Mostly Suburban) Teachers

Chicago Tribune:

Let's get one thing straight, right from the start: We love $100,000 teachers. We wish Illinois had more of them.

You wouldn't know it to listen to Ken Swanson, president of the Illinois Education Association, who didn't like Tribune reporter Diane Rado's story about the concentration of teachers earning $100,000 a year in some suburban school districts. Swanson is urging teachers to write letters to the editor or cancel the paper because he believes the news story was driven by the editorial board.

"From the first sentence of the article, it was apparent that this was another education-bashing Tribune editorial, thinly disguised as a news story," Swanson wrote in a letter to members.

Baloney.

More here.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 25, 2010 3:55 AM
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