August 22 – The Telegraph
Professor Ann Lousin quoted:
“This is a very specialized situation. In fact, the term regional superintendent of schools, I can tell you, doesn’t appear anywhere in the Constitution,” said Ann Lousin, a professor at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Lousin said that because the superintendents’ pay is administered by the Illinois State Board of Education, they should be defined as elected state officials, giving Quinn the constitutional ground to cut the 44 superintendent’s average annual pay of $95,000 each.
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