VVSD board members will negotiate the next teacher contract this year. If you believe teachers should pay their legally mandated portion of pension contributions so that precious tax dollars needed in the classroom can remain in the classroom, contact your elected VVSD board members:
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The Illinois Policy Institute estimated that in 2010, just one year, $8.4 million was diverted to pay the teacher portion of the pension contribution. These precious tax dollars are needed in the classroom and should remain there.
Taxpayers are losing homes, jobs and dealing with cutbacks at work. Taxpayers are already paying their fair share of 9.4% at the state level, and 0.58% at the district level. It is only reasonable that teacher’s pay their share, 9.4% of their salary, towards their pension contribution.
After millions in cuts, the district still posted a $7.2 million deficit in the latest budget. It’s long overdue for the district to get serious about rolling back added benefits like paying the teacher’s portion of pension contributions.
It’s important that taxpayers and parents contact the elected board members because the teacher’s union, AFT Local 604 COPE II, spoke loud and clear when they bankrolled the Friends of Valley View candidates in the November 2010 elections. The teacher’s union contributions, $9,000, accounted for 90% of the Friends of Valley View campaign contributions leading up to the election:
Friends of Valley View Candidates
Teacher’s union, AFT Local 604 COPE II, contributions to Friends of Valley View before election:
AFT Local 604 COPE II
1520 N. Rock Dr #7
Crest Hill, IL 60403
$9,000.00
3/14/2011
After the November 2010 election, the AFT Local 604 COPE II, contributed another $1,650 to the Friends of Valley View:
AFT Local 604 COPE II
1520 N. Rock Dr #7
Crest Hill, IL 60403
$1,650.00
4/20/2011
Most of the current board members had not yet been elected when the current contract was negotiated. So it is very important to contact the current board members. They need to know that:
- 165 full time classroom teachers with salary and benefits of $51,000/each
- 389 classroom aides at $20/hour, 6 hours/day, for 180 days/year
- Tuition for 129 special needs students at alternative schools at $65,000/student
- 1,680,000 library books at $5/book
- 8,400 computers at $1,000/computer
- 16,800 computer programs at $500/each
- 20,241 CPR adult and child mannequin kits at $415/each
- 140,000 heart rate monitors at $60/each
- 7,000 defibrillators at $1,200/each
- 32 weight rooms & 32 fitness centers with Hammer Strength equipment at $130,000/each
- 480,000 music recorders and two teaching books at $17.50/each
- 210,000 washable tempera paint kits at $40/each
- 252,000,000 sheets of construction paper at $10/pack of 300 sheets
- 1,024,390,243 sheets of copy paper at $41/pack of 5,000 sheets
- 280 driver education cars at $30,000/each
- 42,000 textbooks at $200/each
- Untold amount of educational enhancements for use in the classroom
VVSD students deserve to benefit from the hard earned tax money paid into this district. How else do you think $8.4 million could have been spent in 2010 to help educate VVSD students?
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