Residency Waiver?
Either the rules apply to everyone or they apply to no one. Unless you're in Chicago politics:
- Chicago's school board is expected to decide today if it will grant a waiver allowing its new chief administrative officer to live outside the city.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has endorsed the two-year waiver so that Tim Cawley, the third-ranking CPS executive, can continue to live in Winnetka.
CPS grants waivers for teachers in high-need areas like special education and math, but this would be a first for an administrator, district officials said. And the waiver would come at a time when the district has been vigorously enforcing the residency rule.
Rules are for peons, not big politically-connected individuals who stand to make hundreds of thousands in tax payer money from being in Rahm's good graces.
And this is going to provoke a strike shortly:
And this is going to provoke a strike shortly:
More than 1,000 angry teachers encircled the Chicago Board of Education Wednesday, chanting “Rahm Emanuel has got to go,” just before Emanuel’s hand-picked school board members voted to approve raises for top executives a week after they rejected raises for teachers.
The throng — as many as five deep — wound around the entire block, stopping morning traffic and urging drivers with their signs to “honk if you support teachers.” As a result, blaring car horns often accompanied chanting protesters.
For being so pro-union, all the screwing around these here parts seems to be done by democrats.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
73 Comments:
I say we team up with the teachers union and raise a stink. The public may not like us, but they LOVE teachers. If all these unions get together and work as a team we cannot be ignored. The numbers are just too large.
The point of wavers is to allow leeway for exceptional situations that may arise- not to give clouted individuals their own set of rules to play by.
Example of an appropriate use of a residency waver; I went to high school when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. A renowned University music professor took sabbatical from his position to move in with and care for his mother, who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Wanting something to do for an hour or two each day, he inquired with the local high school to see if they were interested in having him teach some advanced music classes to the kids, at an entry level teachers pay. They turned him down. The county next door heard of this and offered him a waiver of residency, so he could continue to live with his ailing mother, but teach a county over.
This isn't that.
This is your garden variety favoritism, cloutism, Chicago style who-you-know'ism.
Flossmoor here I come...
Absolute double standard! Clout rules again. Fuck the teachers take care of the bosses. Fop is next
"For being so pro-union, all the screwing around these here parts seem to be done by democrats."
Like I've always asked, how can democrats be the source AND solution to all of our problems?
Remember Rham was part of the Obama administration, he is going to screw the citizens if the this city, its employees, just for his political gain. He technically still does not live in the city either yet. Is this CITY turning into a Socialist state? Rham is going to this city into the ground like Detroit. He doesn't want to hire more police. So, I say let the city burn and the killings continue. Chi-town the murder capital of the World.
Lawsuit period by every union and city employees.
ALL the unions voted Rahm in - so live with it.
He's a union man. He's a Democrat.
Wait til you get your 10% cut - to help even out the budget.
Maybe he'll say 20%, but you always have Quinn to talk him out of it.
Then again,,,,,,,
Time for the FOP to file a lawsuit for residency and include lawyer and court costs... With rahms election b.s. and now this, how could you lose???
Does anyone doubt Mayor Rahm wants the teachers to strike. He is gearing up for this fight with the teachers becasue he thinks he will win and crush the union. Once he knocks the teachers out he will go on to all the other unions and threaten them. Emmanuel is a rich man with bigger plans for himself. He will not back down so we have to KNOCK HIM ON HIS POLITICAL ASS! Daley would never pick this fight. He was too much of a coward. Rahm is a differnet creature. He loves the fight.
Revolution is coming soon. A counter communist revolution is just what this country needs to get rid of the dead wood and restore this nation to its former greatness.
All of the apparatchiks had better enjoy their reign for now. The dream of the founding fathers did not include rule by the few to the detriment of the people, but rather their destruction.
The best is this guys reason for wanting to stay in Winnetka. He has children and wants them to go through the public school system out there. What's wrong with the Chicago schools you tool?
Where does rahm's family live and where will his kids go to school?
There isn't a doubt in my mind that they will be Parker or Latin attendees.
Look out FOP LEADERSHIP. POLICE AND FIRE ARE NEXT AFTER TEACHERS. Shields is gonna get punished by Tiny Dancer!
Years ago, in the late 60's or early 70's, when James Conlisk was the Police Superintendent, it was discovered that he actually lived outside of the city. I am not sure, but I think he was living in Park Ridge and his block abutted the city.
Soooo, what the powers that be, Mayor Richard J. Daley et al, did, they annexed his house, and his house only, to be included into the city.
There was a photo in the papers back then that showed the block he lived on and the highlighted house, which was in the middle of the block, but was now part of the City of Chicago. So now old Jim was living in the city. Brilliant!!!
As you can see, they can do whatever the fuck they want as long as it fits their agenda.
It would be interesting to see if that one house is still annexed to the city, but I wouldn't know how to go about doing it.
It seems like all politicans have joined one party, called
screw the normal people.
There was a Washington Post article that was also published in the Milwaukee J-S that documented many of the financial travesties that has brought the middle class to its knees.
It really is time for a revolution...we've been had.
I would like to know if his daughter is going to public school or private school. Anyone know? People who adopt (one) twelve year old are suspect in my opnion, they have waited this long in their life because they are to busy with a career and fulfilling their selfish needs. This is hardly an excuse, move to Rogers Park, Winettka is 6 miles away.
Here's the deal... if you are not connected involving any job in this city you always will be expected to live within city limits, receive your meager wages, and then be expected to applaud the one or two percent or better yet no raise idea and just be happy the city has not found some way to fire you.
How many of them voted for Rahm?
How many of them voted for Obama?
Get them to email their alderman, to keep the raises, benefits anpensions...
...and to hire more police.
Teachers should be able to carry guns and live of the city. We should sit down with their union and protest the City on this. Hey FOP are you listening??? Mike Im starting to have concer about my vote.
I agree with the teachers. each of the "executives' at the Board of Ed
will be paid over two hundred thousand dollars a year in salaries
but there is no money to give the
teachers a recently negoiated four
percent raise. Someone is throwing
some s*it in the game and needs to be called-out. My granddaughter
graduated from eighth grade and
there were five different names
on her diploma, what gives ?
It should have been just the Supt.
and her school's principal.
And what's with this school CEO
job ? That job could be and should
be eliminated to save money, but
when you are using O.P.M. ( other
people's money) the sky is the limit, lastly un*ss the schools TIF
money that Daley stole and restore
it back it's intended purpose to run the Chicago schools.
Did the teachers endorse Rahm?
#1: Does anyone believe this Cawley wil still be working at CPS when his 2-year exemption is over?
#2: How much a week are the teachers losing after taxes due to not getting their raises? $39.80
It was reported that the average teacher's salary is $69,000/year X .04 (amt of raise) = $2760
$2760 X .25 (taxes/other deductions) = $2070/yr or $39.80/week
These greedy teachers are complaining about $40/week and little Lashawn and Anais still can't read or write?
I thought they were supposed to be smart? Why rock the boat is this economy over $40?
3. The new CPS administrators are getting raises. This is good and bad. .
Bad because they haven't done a thing yet and now the teachers are upset and may strike over $40/week.
Good because now maybe someone wil finally straighten things out at CPS. Does anyone think the Rahmster would put people in place that he believed wouldn't elevate his political stautus and prime him for a run at a higher political job?
Anonymous said...
Time for the FOP to file a lawsuit for residency and include lawyer and court costs... With rahms election b.s. and now this, how could you lose???
6/23/2011 03:10:00 AM
I totally agree. What ARE our unions for anyway? If all the city unions fought for us, like unions used to do, this could be an exciting time for us! What a way to stick it to all leaders who want to control our every move.
"Some animals are more equal than others."
Never more true than in Chicago.
He is employed by Chicago, in Chicago, so let him follow the rules like everyone else. Is he too good to live with his "constituants" ??? I don't like them either but Rules is Rules Right ? Not if you're connected !!!!
Oy Vey ! Such Goings On !!!!!!!!!
Anonymous said...
Flossmoor here I come...
6/23/2011 12:46:00 AM
Have you been to Flosmoor lately?
What a fucking scam!!!! Chicago is the leader in corruption and now the leader in changing the rules for clouted to get the desired result.
Gee, right after the school board voted in Rahm's favor, Rahm then gives the board president a residency waiver. Hummmmmmmmm.....sounds like business as usual pay to pay in chicago.
Why not live out of the city. The Aviation Cmmrs has already given out these waivers.
In Aviation you can be hired and still live out of town, even get a car too!
Funny, the teachers have all supported him and his type for the last 6-8 years. How's that medicine now? Fools!
The principal at Mt. Greenwood Elementary school lives in New Lenox and she's more than happy to tell you the rules Don't apply to her.
From the New Lenox city sticker on her BMW to her open stories about her kids are educated in the New Lenox school district. When called on it by a CFD parent shell tell you the residency rule doesn't apply to her.
Unreal...
The teachers are all bitches if they don't strike. This is the only weapon available to them to enforce their contract.
remember..shared sacrifice for the greater good.like i always said..the rules/laws only apply to the little people here in socialist chicago
ALL THE RULES ARE FALLING TO THE WAYSIDE.
J-FLED MAKES HIS OWN UP TO STEAL TIME
WHILE INSPECTORS GIG WORKING OFFICER IN COURT!
EXEMPTION TO LIVE OUT OF CITY, WE FORGET RAHM RAN FOR MAYOR AND LIVED IN WASHINGTON.
DALEY USING CITY MONEY FOR A POLICE SECURITY TEAM AND A CITY VEHICLE SO HE CAN BREEZE THROUGH RED LIGHTS AND PARK AT HYDRANTS.
BURKE PULLING OUT 25 YEAR OLD COURT ORDERS WITH NO EXPIRATION.
TO BAD THOSE MOMS THAT ARE BEAT DOWN BY THEIR HUBBIES HAVE TO REPLY FOR ORDER OF PROTECTIONS.
CUELLOS DAUGHTER CAUGHT WITH GUNS AND DRUGS AND SHE ISNT CHARGE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN THE CITY FOR BEING IN THE HOUSE.
JUST REMEMBER WHEN U WANT TO MAKE A PIMPY ARREST AND RUIN A WORKING MANS LIFE THINK IS THIS SHIT LEGIT.
SO MUCH ANGER AGAINST TEACHERS!!!
JUST THINK TEACHER DONT LOCK DADDY UP
TAKES MOMS CAR AWAY
OR PUT CUFFS ON JUNIOR.
FOR U INTERNET RANTERS WHO PUT FIREMEN,TEACHERS, AND OTHERS DOWN THINK BEFORE U TYPE BEING AN ASSHAT SHOULDNT BE UR GOAL IN LIFE.
RAHM AND HIS GREAT OUT OF TOWN APPOINTEES SHOULD BE WHERE UR ANGER IS FOCUSED.
OR FATHER FLEM.
This he and his wife decided to adopt a child 6 months ago and now are afraid to uproatbhervand move? Bullshit. Its a two year waiver. I will bet my lavish pension that when the two years is up he will either have already left or they will extend his waiver
Easiest way to keep kids safe is make sure they do not make the honor roll, do not play basketball, and make sure you have more than the graduation picture of them available. Bullets must hate smart athletic kids. It's never the bad kids that get killed, just the good ones.
According to the Illinois Supreme Court residency is defined as "intent". It's the Rahm Rule.
Where's the outrage from Obama?
It's an attack on the unions!
**sigh**
Complete BS Rahm...your shortshanks U. pedigree is showing! If that asshole can't live in the Shitty like the rest of us, replace him. We need every middle class city worker tax dime we can squander now.
The Perfect Storm is not far away. The economy is in the toilet, our pensions are threatened, we are being raped daily by crooked inept politicians, and young brainless Thugs are threatening our very freedom to even walk the streets. It happened in Russia many years ago and we see it going on now in Greece, Spain, and of course the Middle East. Wall Street Banksters and Corporations have us on the ground with their boots on our necks. Oil companies won't even let us afford to fill the gas tank on our cars. Revolution? It happens fast folks. Hold on!
They voted for him because of his close association w/ obama and he turns around and destroys them.
RahmShanks got a court ordered residency waiver from the same Judge who gave Burke his bodyguard detail. So you see where this one is going.
The Mayor & CPS Board denies teacher raises, so theyre going to be re-negotiating a contract like it's no be deal. Why didn't the City renegotiate JFeds contract?
As for the Unions in general, they all give huge amounts of campaign cash to the Democrats. And now the teachers want their money back. Their members should see where their money is going. There's mostly a liberal mindset that comes from being a teacher, and now that collective bargaining is going extinct, it's time they divert their attention to a more conservative agenda.
All the free willy-nilly spending on CPS for mostly wasteful programs, executive salaries and 3rd party suppliers has to stop, there may be gold in those TIF accounts, but its the fraud and waste that holds teacher raises.
Try to get Obama, Quinn and Durbin on your side, they're part of your union dues, provided your 'union' didn't drain the Strike Fund. It would be wise to see how much money is still there and see where it went.
In the meantime I'll honk to support the cause.
Lets ALL join together and let Raheem know that WE, the foundation of society, band together and we will not be F@#ed with. This is a test, if the teachers go down we're next.
The best thing is that the teachers union endorsed asshole Rahm, and this is the screwing he gives them.
The CTU did not endorse the little dicktator.
The principal at Mt. Greenwood Elementary school lives in New Lenox and she's more than happy to tell you the rules Don't apply to her.
From the New Lenox city sticker on her BMW to her open stories about her kids are educated in the New Lenox school district. When called on it by a CFD parent shell tell you the residency rule doesn't apply to her.
Unreal...
6/23/2011 10:07:00 AM
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I don't care where she lives, that lady has completely turned that school around. There is a sense of discipline and caring there that hasn't been there in decades. I will not pimp her out.
Anonymous said...
I say we team up with the teachers union and raise a stink. The public may not like us, but they LOVE teachers. If all these unions get together and work as a team we cannot be ignored. The numbers are just too large.
6/23/2011 12:17:00 AM
This is EXACTLY correct.
ALL union members from across ALL unions in this city and state need to stand behind each other NOW.
Scumbags like Emanuel & Quinn think 'divide & conquer' will get them a victory in their eternal quest to destroy public sector employee wages, pensions and benefits in this country.
They're trying to get it done over the largest and loudest union membership in this state, the teacher's union.
Once they get the laws changed in violation of current labor laws, their foot is in the door to fuck every other union in the state.
And that next union is the POLICE union. They are the next largest in the state, and once the teachers are fucked we will have no recourse.
Stand behind teachers now, and prevent the same attacks against ourselves when the time comes, and it's coming fast.
Don't rely on union leadership to do a fucking thing besides cave in with the "oh well, what can you do" attitude. Oh they'll do the usual song and dance, but they'll cave sure as the day is long.
Do it yourselves along with all other unions now!
And VOTE then next election, don't just fucking give up and claim you can't win because that's what you ALWAYS fucking do and that's why you get fucked, because the MACHINE WILL VOTE EVERY TIME.
In the meantime I'll honk to support the cause.
6/23/2011 01:58:00 PM
So will I.
Daffy Duck
They voted for him because of his close association w/ obama and he turns around and destroys them.
6/23/2011 01:13:00 PM
exactly.
prepare for battle! we re next, along with the firefighters union. this guy and his buddy BHO like to wipe their @@@@@ on labor contracts and constitutional rights. we re '' out of line'' compared to the private sector. they re coming...
The CPS Haitian Prince now sezz he wants all school teachers to visit every one of their students homes during the school year. Really. Is Brizzard going to provide a security detail for many of these teachers to go into war zone neighborhoods? Likely not. Only parasites like Eddy Burke get that kind of service. I seem to recall that our schools have evenings where parents are supposed to come to the school to check on their childs progress. Isn't that good enough? Can't everyone see Rahm the Weasel wants the teachers to walk out. I smell a strike in the air!
6:33....It wasn't Park Ridge, it was Norridge. The street is called "Memory Lane", one block south of St. Eugenes at the intersection of Foster/Canfield.
The beast now resides in the free/subsidized for crackheads Section 8 apartments nearby on Cumberland. Times change.
The teachers are all bitches if they don't strike. This is the only weapon available to them to enforce their contract.
6/23/2011 10:08:00 AM
You don't strike during the Summer.
You do the strike vote 1 day before school starts.
Rahm & Co: crooks and hypocrits.
Remember, Rahm was only voted in by 20 percent of registered voters. . . . .
you get what you vote for, or get what they give you if you don't vote.
Jersey is a GOOF!! This is the only stae with no concealed arry and the Shitheads have free reign. Go NRA. Good citizens arm thy self the police can't protect you!!
6:49PM....Thanks, I was a southsider back in those days and now live in Arizona.
You're right, times do change, but you can still tell the players without a scorecard.
allowing him to live in Winnetka ia BULLSHIT
I understand about his child He just will have to work xomewhere else
YOU take a pay cut Officer
EEK said...
#1: Does anyone believe this Cawley wil still be working at CPS when his 2-year exemption is over?
#2: How much a week are the teachers losing after taxes due to not getting their raises? $39.80
It was reported that the average teacher's salary is $69,000/year X .04 (amt of raise) = $2760
$2760 X .25 (taxes/other deductions) = $2070/yr or $39.80/week
I'd like to see the Haitian Prince and the little dicktator I'd like to see them step up to 22nd and Homan. I'd even buy Rahm and JC black and gold Pittsburgh Pirates jerseys to wear . . .
All us public workers and union employees need to stand shoulder to shoulder. No more money for the Dems and no votes either. We need a labor party candidate who understands the working man.
been said way to many times "rules dont apply to her /him! ",,,,,,remember this when B.O. runs for his third term
From the New Lenox city sticker on her BMW to her open stories about her kids are educated in the New Lenox school district. When called on it by a CFD parent shell tell you the residency rule doesn't apply to her.
Unreal...
6/23/2011 10:07:00 AM
From what I recall, there was an exception made by CPS years ago, and since been grandfathered in.
However, with the head of CPS, why not let him live outside the City, The Mayor did before he got elected.
I'd like to see the Haitian Prince and the little dicktator I'd like to see them step up to 22nd and Homan. I'd even buy Rahm and JC black and gold Pittsburgh Pirates jerseys to wear . . .
6/23/2011 11:44:00 PM
ah, you devil, you, at it again?
Re: New Lenox city sticker...
The principal is under 40 yrs old. Now she may be knocking on 40s door she's still way to young to be exempt from residence...
I can think of several teachers that are older and have more time at CPS and will tel you they were hired AFTER that exemption clause.
i.a.d. investigastion in 017th dist involving tech....more later
3. The new CPS administrators are getting raises. This is good and bad. .
Bad because they haven't done a thing yet and now the teachers are upset and may strike over $40/week.
Good because now maybe someone wil finally straighten things out at CPS. Does anyone think the Rahmster would put people in place that he believed wouldn't elevate his political stautus and prime him for a run at a higher political job?
6/23/2011 08:23:00 AM
Would you accept the exempts here to get a raise, and as per your contract, which the City voted YES to, take away the same said pay raise? It’s not about the $40. It’s about the Principal! Pay attention, because If he’s (Raham) going to do it to them, he’s going to do it to us!
Granted CPS has its problems, but scores, and failing tests, lowering the bar, that’s due to one thing, and it aint in the classroom!
Anonymous said...
Time for the FOP to file a lawsuit for residency and include lawyer and court costs... With rahms election b.s. and now this, how could you lose???
6/23/2011 03:10:00 AM
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Damn!! Why didn't somebody think of this before??
Dope
drug abusers can protest CHA and get thier wishes granted, at taxpayer expense. Yet the educators of our future generations are treated like shit. This country is doomed. Legislators are more concerned with gay marriage and early prison releases than what's really needed.
I don't care where she lives, that lady has completely turned that school around. There is a sense of discipline and caring there that hasn't been there in decades. I will not pimp her out.
There are thousands of city employees that do a good job everyday and they are forced to play by the rules. Your twisted logic makes absolutely no sense at all, it's either a rule for all or for none. Your argument is simply ridiculous, she can do just as good a job as a resident of the city of Chicago, just like the rest of us.
Legislators are more concerned with gay marriage and early prison releases than what's really needed.
6/24/2011 11:01:00 PM
legislators are only concerned with getting reelected.
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