Schools
What District 204 Top Administrators Made This School Year
Here's how some of your property tax dollars are being allocated around Joliet.
JOLIET, IL — The final weeks of Cheryl McCarthy's tenure as Superintendent of Joliet Township High School District 204 are nearing and many people in the district are looking forward to the new era. Last week, Joliet Patch revealed that District 204 chooses to post outdated public salary information on the school district website to comply with an Illinois transparency law.
The most current public salary data available on the District 204 website is from the 2017-2018 school year.
Realizing the salary data on the District website remains outdated, Joliet Patch submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to District 204 in recent months seeking access to current salary data solely for top administrative officials working under McCarthy.
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Patch is now making that data available to you, to help give you a better perspective on how salaries and raises are being distributed during the McCarthy superintendency.
On July 1, Mike Hanson, a school superintendent currently employed in the Black Hills of South Dakota, will be taking over District 204. The Joliet Township School Board opted to go outside Joliet rather than hire someone in the McCarthy administration as the next superintendent.
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Superintendent Cheryl McCarthy
2018-2019 salary: $293,724
2017-2018 salary: $277,098
Difference: Pay raise of $16,626
Ilandus Hampton, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services
2018-2019 salary: $207,759
2017-2018 salary: $201,708
Difference: Pay raise of $6,051
Karla Narducci Guseman, Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services
2018-2019 salary: $165,033
2017-2018 salary $160,226
Difference: Pay raise of $4,807
David Gray, director of support services, including transportation center. Gray, like McCarthy, is also retiring at the end of the 2018-2019 school year.
2018-2019 salary: $196,742
2017-2018 salary: $185,606
Difference: Pay raise of $11,136
Kristine Schlismann, director of community and alumni relations. (Schlismann writes many of the press releases issued by District 204.)
2018-2019 salary: $113,516
2017-2018 salary: $110,210
Difference: Pay raise of $3,306
Teresa Gibson, Joliet West High School Principal
2018-2019 salary: $184,810
2017-2018 salary: $179,427
Difference: Pay raise of $5,383
Shad Hallihan, Joliet Central High School Principal
2018-2019 salary: $163,113
2017-2018 salary: $158,363
Difference: Pay raise of $4,750
Brian Shaw, assistant principal at Joliet Central High School
2018-2019 salary: $147,526
2017-2018 salary: $143,229
Difference: Pay raise of $4,297
Tino Villafor, assistant principal at Joliet Central High School
2018-2019 salary: $113,300
2017-2018 salary: $110,000
Difference: Pay raise of $3,300
Jo Wooten, assistant principal at Joliet West High School
2018-2019 salary: $127,228
2017-2018 salary: $123,523
Difference: Pay raise of $3,705
Matt Narducci, assistant principal at Joliet West High School.
Promoted within the district by the McCarthy administration during the summer of 2018. He is the brother of Assistant Superintendent Karla Guseman.
2018-2019 salary: $110,000
2017-2018 salary: $94,975, listed as a general administrator or general supervisor with 204.
Difference: Pay raise of $15,025
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