educationmatters.us - 1/18/2009
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Big Hollow School District 38 is hiring a Director of Technology. This position and how it is being handled is being questioned by residents of the district. The job posting can be found here. Below is the email I received from a resident providing background for the approval of the ...
suburbanchicagonews.com - 1/18/2009
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suburbanchicagonews.com —
INGLESIDE -- After two years without employing technology
staff due to budget constraints, Big Hollow School District...
38 has approved hiring a director of technology. The district, with 1,550 students and 120 staff, relied on volunteers and one ...
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Big Hollow schools OK tech director position :: News Sun :
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Corruption: Ill. School Board Member Creates New Job Then Takes It Himself
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... Lennie Jarrat of the Education Matters blog has an interesting story of probable influence peddling by the Big Hollow School Board. Like school districts everywhere, for months the school board has turned down hiring a school nurse and has resisted filling other empty positions citing budget concerns. But that didn’t stop the School Board from inventing a whole new position, essentially in secret, and then picking one of its own members to take that position at an undisclosed salary. ...
Ill. School Board Member Creates New, Tax Funded Job Then Takes It Himself
Stop The ACLU —
-By Warner Todd Huston [image] In these tough financial times it is no surprise that school districts all across the country are crying poor and some of them probably even are. Corners are being cut, positions go unfilled by new applicants, budgets are cut; it is an everyday occurrence these days. Justified or not, the same is no less true in Big Hollow School District 38 in Lake County, Illinois (North of Chicago). Lennie Jarratt of the Education Matters blog has an interesting story of probable influence peddling by the Big Hollow School Board. Like school districts ...
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