Illinois governor vetoes bill to raise minimum salary for teachers

8/27/18
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) vetoed a bill Sunday that would have raised the minimum salary for teachers from $9,000 to $40,000 within five years. In vetoing the bill, Rauner said he preferred tying pay increases for teachers to performance and incentives. “Teachers are our greatest asset in ensuring the future of our youth and they deserve to be well-compensated for their hard work,” Rauner wrote in his veto message, according to the Chicago Tribune. “However, minimum pay legislation is neither the most efficient nor the most effective way to compensate our teachers," Rauner wrote. “Things like pay-for-performance, diversified pay for teachers in hard-to-staff schools or subjects, or pay incentives for teachers with prior work experience are all viable options to provide greater compensation for teachers,” Rauner continued. When the legislation narrowly passed the state Senate in May, Republicans expressed concerns that it would have put struggling communities, particularly rural ones, under undue financial burden, according to Illinois News Network.

Democrats insisted that the bill would bring much needed funds to teachers. State Sen. Andy Manar (D), who sponsored the bill, said Sunday that he was “disappointed” with the governor, according to the Chicago Tribune. “Refusing to guarantee professional educators a livable minimum wage is no way to lure more teachers to Illinois,” Manar said in a statement. “I’m disappointed in the governor’s veto, and I know thousands of dedicated, hard-working, creative educators throughout the state are too.” Rauner has clashed with teacher interest groups before. The governor cheered the Supreme Court’s decision against public-sector unions in June, calling public-sector unions inherently political. According to the Chicago Tribune, the current minimum salary for Illinois teachers was set at $9,000 in July 1980.

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Rogue Valley said:

Illinois governor vetoes bill to raise minimum salary for teachers

Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner.



Rauner, a multimillionaire, personally financed much of his campaign in 2014. However, his Democrat opponent in 2018 is J.B. Pritzker of the billionaire Pritzker family. Rauner's four year term has been a disaster (in fairness he has been blocked on many initiative's by the majority Democratic legislature) and I believe his term as governor will end in November. This will result in a reverse of the Federal problem .... the Illinois Dems will control all levers of state government plus the City of Chicago.

Related: Why Illinois is becoming more of a 'microcosm of national politics'

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Hawkeye10 said:

There is no money to be spreading even more around to the teachers....have you looked at the Chicago Schools debt load lately just for starters?

The fact that the Gov has money is irrelevant.

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Removable Mind said:

Is he employing good business sense - or he’s really not sympathetic or empathetic with the plight of the common folk?

Teaching in areas of Illinois can be a stressful, even dangerous job.

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Hawkeye10 said:

Illinois needs to figure out a path towards honoring the promises already made, or else sloughing them off...this is not time to add more obligations to the taxpayers unless there is no choice.

There is a choice here.

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Rogue Valley said:

Illinois governor vetoes bill to raise minimum salary for teachers

Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner.



Rauner, a multimillionaire, personally financed much of his campaign in 2014. However, his Democrat opponent in 2018 is J.B. Pritzker of the billionaire Pritzker family. Rauner's four year term has been a disaster (in fairness he has been blocked on many initiative's by the majority Democratic legislature) and I believe his term as governor will end in November. This will result in a reverse of the Federal problem .... the Illinois Dems will control all levers of state government plus the City of Chicago.

Related: Why Illinois is becoming more of a 'microcosm of national politics'

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Rogue Valley said:

Illinois governor vetoes bill to raise minimum salary for teachers

Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner.



Rauner, a multimillionaire, personally financed much of his campaign in 2014. However, his Democrat opponent in 2018 is J.B. Pritzker of the billionaire Pritzker family. Rauner's four year term has been a disaster (in fairness he has been blocked on many initiative's by the majority Democratic legislature) and I believe his term as governor will end in November. This will result in a reverse of the Federal problem .... the Illinois Dems will control all levers of state government plus the City of Chicago.

Related: Why Illinois is becoming more of a 'microcosm of national politics'

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beefheart said:

Yup..that will get the dems out voting like crazy. Here in AZ, there will be a big effect of the "red for ed" folks being mobilized and out voting.

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Jack Hays said:

The worst-run state in the country, the result of decades of misgovernment. Enormous unfunded obligations.

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mike2810 said:

When I read the OP with the quote of "vetoed a bill Sunday that would have raised the minimum salary for teachers from $9,000 to $40,000 within five years." My first thoughts was the $9,000 can't be correct. The beginning teacher with only a BS degree is making in the $30k range. The last thing in the linked article was "According to the Chicago Tribune, the current minimum salary for Illinois teachers was set at $9,000 in July 1980." So the 9k is a starting salary from 38 years ago. :lamo

https://www.isbe.net/Pages/TeacherSalaryStudy.aspx

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Linc said:

26 straight years of crooked and jailed GOP governors from 1977 to 2003 led to our pension crisis, which you know 0.1% about.

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Rogue Valley said:

the Illinois Dems will control all levers of state government plus the City of Chicago.

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Linc said:

26 straight years of crooked and jailed GOP governors from 1977 to 2003 led to our pension crisis, which you know 0.1% about.

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MrWonka said:

Good for them. Hopefully, they'll finally get themselves out of their budget problems and start investing in infrastructure that they desperately need.

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mike2810 said:

When I read the OP with the quote of "vetoed a bill Sunday that would have raised the minimum salary for teachers from $9,000 to $40,000 within five years." My first thoughts was the $9,000 can't be correct. The beginning teacher with only a BS degree is making in the $30k range. The last thing in the linked article was "According to the Chicago Tribune, the current minimum salary for Illinois teachers was set at $9,000 in July 1980." So the 9k is a starting salary from 38 years ago. :lamo

https://www.isbe.net/Pages/TeacherSalaryStudy.aspx

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Jack Hays said:

Actually, I know quite a bit about it. Lived there 1972-1976.

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Rogue Valley said:

Jack, this is 2018.

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Rogue Valley said:

Illinois governor vetoes bill to raise minimum salary for teachers

Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner.



Rauner, a multimillionaire, personally financed much of his campaign in 2014. However, his Democrat opponent in 2018 is J.B. Pritzker of the billionaire Pritzker family. Rauner's four year term has been a disaster (in fairness he has been blocked on many initiative's by the majority Democratic legislature) and I believe his term as governor will end in November. This will result in a reverse of the Federal problem .... the Illinois Dems will control all levers of state government plus the City of Chicago.

Related: Why Illinois is becoming more of a 'microcosm of national politics'

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mike2810 said:

When I read the OP with the quote of "vetoed a bill Sunday that would have raised the minimum salary for teachers from $9,000 to $40,000 within five years." My first thoughts was the $9,000 can't be correct. The beginning teacher with only a BS degree is making in the $30k range. The last thing in the linked article was "According to the Chicago Tribune, the current minimum salary for Illinois teachers was set at $9,000 in July 1980." So the 9k is a starting salary from 38 years ago. :lamo

https://www.isbe.net/Pages/TeacherSalaryStudy.aspx

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Jack Hays said:

You would have embarrassed yourself less by paying attention to the rest of the quote. Mrs. Hays and I will be visiting her brother in Chicago next month. Many other family members and several good friends live there. We get plenty of news, and the sorry story of Illinois misgovernment is not a secret.

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Linc said:

We’ll be getting rid of mismanagement by Rauner in 70 days. 26 straight years of GOP Republican Governors raiding TRS — Teacher’s Retirement Service — at $400 million a year — is why WE are where WE are.

Out-of-staters no little to zero of what they speak. Their war on GIVER Blue States California, Illinois and New York to give to TAKER Red States is called out for what it is, dividing America into Red and Blue.

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Jack Hays said:

You would have embarrassed yourself less by paying attention to the rest of the quote. Mrs. Hays and I will be visiting her brother in Chicago next month. Many other family members and several good friends live in Illinois. We get plenty of news, and the sorry story of Illinois misgovernment is not a secret.

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