The Chicago Public Schools want to give teachers a 2% raise for 29% more hours. For a beginning teacher this is $3.08 an hour. That’s considerably less than many of her students would make babysitting.
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Is This Really Fair CPS?
August 29, 2011Censored Student Finally Allowed to Speak
March 1, 2010[Operation Push allowed Shantell Steve to deliver a speech after the student who was honored by President Obama earlier this year was censored at the Chicago Board of Education meeting this past week and it was reprinted by Substance News. If you're not reading Substance, you're not getting the real story of what's going on [...]
Solving Chicago’s Billion Dollar School Debt
February 28, 2010About a decade ago, my financial outlook was really bleak. I had gone back to school and financed a middle class lifestyle on a part-time retail job selling comic books and credit cards. The result was between student loans and credit, I owed about $36,000. I dug my way out of the big hole in [...]
Honored by Obama–Silenced by the Chicago Board of Education
February 25, 2010Yesterday, I completed my transformation from observer to activist when I spoke at the Chicago Board of Education meeting where they cast a cowardly vote to close or overhaul six Chicago Public Schools. The day began at 4AM. I won’t pretend to be a modern day Joe Hill–part of the reason I was up early [...]
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