Huberman’s Raise
Why do you have to use the Freedom of Information Act to get this information? Every dime they spend comes from the public. We pay them. Clearly those at the CPS know that the law means that we are entitled to this information. Why do they need to be compelled if they have nothing to hide?
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Why should we trust them? Why should we pay them if we can’t trust them? These people are going to go to City Hall, to the state and ask for more money to fix their budget—and they have to be compelled to show what they are spending our money on? Apparently they are spending it on trips, cars and everything else for their benefit and not for the benefit of children and schools.
Mad as Hell
You don’t need to FOIA it. The Resolution appointing Huberman is on the CPS website here: http://www.cps.edu/About_CPS/The_Board_of_Education/Documents/BoardActions/2009_01/09-0128-RS5.pdf. And the CPS officials were right. Huberman personally has not received a raise. He was hired at $230,000.00 and remains there (actually less than that with voluntary furlough says). While I am no fan of the current CPS administration, fair is fair. Mr. Javorsky (It’s Joravsky —ed.) has attempted to portray Huberman as a venal character giving himself a personal benefit that he denies to and wants to take away from others. In this instance anyway, that portrayal is false. The mayor asked Huberman to take a job in which many with vested interests in system will root for his failure and which has uncommon demands and responsibilities. He apparently demanded $230,000.00 to take this thankless job, the board gave it to him and, contrary to the impression this series of articles have tried to make, he did not and the board has not increased that salary. The story was wrong.
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