Must school districts list employee names, numbers, or titles?
We recommend providing both names and job titles. Neither Public Act requires that any specific identifying information be reported. However, Public Act 096-0434 refers to posting a report “for every employee,” suggesting that the individual, and not the position, is the focus. Furthermore, the legislative histories make clear that the goal is to create a “culture of transparency and openness” (Sen. D. Cronin). For those school districts that decide not to include individual names, we recommend using sufficiently clear job titles so that the report information may be easily associated with the appropriate individual by anyone who may be interested in doing so.
