The average school administrator s salary in the Queen Bee School District 16 was $115,765 during the 2020 school year, while teaching salaries averaged $66,819, according to data from the Illinois Report Card.
The average salary for an Illinois school administrator has risen by 11 percent in the previous five years compared with nine percent in teacher pay.
The district with the highest compensation among administrators was the Spring Lake Community Consolidated School District 606 with an average compensation of $208,333, while the district s average teacher pay was $41,427.
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The average school administrator's salary in the Roselle School District 12 was $121,109 during the 2020 school year, while teaching salaries averaged $73,303.
Brian Daugherty has a desk calendar hanging on his wall at home that has counted the days he s been away from his Jefferson Middle School special education students in a classroom because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Tuesday, when Daugherty is set to rejoin them as a hybrid teacher, it will have been 320 days, he said. It s like a journey to a new frontier, Daugherty said. It will be nice to see them again, without all of the white noise and distractions.
About 44 percent of students from Springfield School District 186 have signed up to return to classrooms under the hybrid model, putting them in classrooms two days a week.
Shelia Boozer, the director of teaching and learning for Springfield School District 186, is one of three finalists for the Champaign school district’s superintendent position.
The Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based firm Ray and Associates was hired by the Champaign school board to conduct a national search. Seven semi-finalists were interviewed and the field was eventually pared to three.
The Champaign school district has just over 10,000 students on 19 campuses in Champaign, Bondville and Savoy.
Boozer has served in the cabinet-level position with District 186 since 2014.
Boozer was principal at Lanphier High School and also atBlack Hawk and Fairview elementary schools.
According to the Champaign News-Gazette, a main focus of the board is hiring a candidate who is a fit with the district s strategic plan, which it adopted over the summer, and lays out steps to improve equity. An anti-racism resolution is part of the plan.
The average school administrator's salary in the Addison School District 4 was $108,501 during the 2020 school year, while teaching salaries averaged $66,367.