No D220 candidate vowed to cut costs

Responding to your article on the plus and minuses of electing an educator, I think one important negative not mentioned is that, because teachers benefit from the current system, it's hard for them to see negatives in it such as the lack of focus on control of spending by the school boards.

We suffer from this in District 220 where the cost to educate a student has ballooned from $10,254 in 2006 to $14,948 in 2015; i.e. a 46 percent increase.

There's only one teacher on the 220 school board, but even with that, there was zero mention of the need to control spending in the remarks by candidates published in the Herald on their views on school finance.

The result of this blind spot is a steady and unnecessary increase in property taxes.

Willard Bishop

Barrington Hills