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To celebrate Skokie Patch’s one-year anniversary, each day this week we’ll highlight stories with mass viewing at the website. Retired Administrator Makes $71K to Design T-Shirts A Patch investigation revealed a pattern of administrators working as high-paid consultants shortly after retiring. Robert Freeman, a former principal and fine arts director, received more than $71,000 for T-shirt and logo designs, PowerPoint presentations and overseeing a construction project. At the same time teachers were fighting to keep their jobs in the face of looming budget cuts in Niles Township School District 219. Gerry Yeggy, a former business operations manager for the school system, said it was cheaper to hire a former administrator as a consultant …
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Patch investigation reveals pattern of administrators working as high-paid consultants shortly after retiring.
A Patch investigation has revealed that retired administrators have been landing lucrative contracts as consultants at the same time teachers are fighting to keep their jobs in the face of looming budget cuts in Niles Township School District 219. Most notably, former principal and fine arts director Robert Freeman received more than $71,000 for designing T-shirts, creating PowerPoint presentations and drafting logos for the district’s new gymnasium during five months as a consultant, he said. “My background is really in art,” Freeman told Skokie Patch in a recent interview. “I designed stuff for the school district.” Around the same time Freeman was consulting, the District 219 school board said it would be laying off 10 tenured teachers …
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