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Parents Talk: Would You Support a Teacher Strike?
In Chicago, teachers returned to the classroom after a seven-day teachers strike. How would you feel if that happened here?
Teachers in Chicago public schools and 350,000 students returned to class on Wednesday, after a seven-day teachers strike. On Tuesday, the union voted to call off the strike after negotiating a contract in that will secure them a double-digit salary increase over the next three years, including raises for cost of living while maintaining other increases for experience and advanced education, according to the Chicago Tribune. The union did not get the 30 percent base raise it wanted initially, but the group was happy with some of the other results: no merit pay, stopped more stringent requirements in a new teacher evaluation system and secured a recall policy for top-performing teachers who are laid off because of school closings. Although …
Scott Rickhoff
3:17 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
Chicago Schools are excellent? Really with dismal 54% graduation rate? (Hate to think of a failing school system would look like by your terms)... and now those people walked away from 16% pay raise. Does anyone know anybody in the private side who received big wage adjustments much less a 16% raise these past 4 years? Surprised? Not really. In my opinion, teachers are the poster children for … more ›