Noveber 17, 2011
By James Kadlec
Volunteer Reporter, Waste Tracker
Kevin Mitchem, the son of James Mitchem, the Valley View School Superintendent, received one of ten $500 scholarships that DuPage Township awarded to high school seniors earlier this year. If a needs test was a qualifier for the scholarship, however, the Superintendent's son would not have been eligible.
Based on the administrator salary compensation report presented at the Valley View Board of Education's October 11 meeting, as reported by the Romeoville Patch, Superintendent James Mitchem pulls in a base salary of $199,000. In addition, the same report shows that Jacqueline Mitchem, Kevin’s mother and a Valley View Elementary School Principal, is paid a $90,021 base salary. The bottom line is DuPage Township awarded a scholarship to the son of two highly paid Valley School administrators, with $289,021 total base income.
The DuPage Township Board periodically spouts that one of the primary responsibilities of townships is to provide social services for the poor and aged. Perhaps the Board has expanded its reach and now caters its services to the extremely well-off & well-connected.
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