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, 2011Rahm vs. The Chicago Teachers
August 26, 2011It’s been nearly a year since I posted to this blog. I frankly considered it done. I continued to leave it up for those who found previous postings useful while I used satire to comment on education elsewhere. Satire is something I’m good at, but it doesn’t do a great job of encapsulating all my [...]
CORE Wins!
June 13, 2010After an election on may 21st that saw CORE and UPC each take about 1/3 of the Chicago Teachers Union votes, it all came down to a runoff between CTU and CORE on this past Friday, June 11th. The result was a resounding CORE victory 60% to 40%. For me personally, it means I will [...]
CTU Election 5/21
May 19, 2010We’re down to the final two days before the Chicago teachers get to choose between business as usual union politics where we throw money at politicians and hope they save us and movement style union politics where we save ourselves. If you have been following my sporadic postings since October you know that I took [...]
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