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...what?Most of those student aren't going to do a thing in life,
So I ain't mad...
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...what?Most of those student aren't going to do a thing in life,
So I ain't mad...
Chicago Bled Dry by Striking Teachers’ Unions
By John Fund
September 10, 2012 9:16 A.M.
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298
The smartest parents in Chicago right now are those whose kids attend charter schools, private schools, or parochial schools. Those institutions don’t employ Chicago’s unionized public-school teachers, who went out on strike this morning for the first time in 25 years.
The coverage of the strike has obscured some basic facts. The money has continued to pour into Chicago’s failing public schools in recent years. Chicago teachers have the highest average salary of any city at $76,000 a year before benefits. The average family in the city only earns $47,000 a year. Yet the teachers rejected a 16 percent salary increase over four years at a time when most families are not getting any raises or are looking for work.
The city is being bled dry by the exorbitant benefits packages negotiated by previous elected officials. Teachers pay only 3 percent of their health-care costs and out of every new dollar set aside for public education in Illinois in the last five years, a full 71 cents has gone to teacher retirement costs.
But beyond the dollars, the fact is that Chicago schools need a fundamental shakeup — which of course the union is resisting. It is calling for changes in the teacher-evaluation system it just negotiated by making student performance less important.
Small wonder. Just 15 percent of fourth graders are proficient in reading and only 56 percent of students who enter their freshman year of high school wind up graduating.
The showdown in Chicago will be a test of just how much clout the public-employee unions wield at a time when the budget pressures they’ve created threaten to break the budgets of America’s major cities.
the public school system is on it's way out. 2 of the high schools I've visited this term in Dallas both have total attendance numbers under 1,000.
One of them under 500.
Charter schools and academies are filling the gaps that greedy bureaucracies won't because they want to get paid for nothing.
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Thats exactly what wealthy and non-minority areas want. Charter schools are often underfunded and understaffed. I've seen many of them struggle to provide even a decent education and many of them barely meet academic standards. Look at Louisiana. The damn governor down there wants to start teaching bible courses in lieu of science education.
If it wasn't for federal education mandates many parts of the country would be EVEN WORSE.
Keep thinking that "the community" knows best. Thats the same right-wing trope they've been pushing for decades to lessen the influence of having standards in communities. Removing those standards would make poor schools fall even farther while hoarding resources for more affluent and desirable areas.
LOL...this is nothing new..I hope they handle this thoThis nation's inner city public school system has turned to ****.
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Most of those student aren't going to do a thing in life,
So I ain't mad...
Most of those student aren't going to do a thing in life,
So I ain't mad...
EVERYTHING IS UNDERFUNDED IN THIS COUNTRY.
Lil Mouse bout to be in that studio full time now
The evidence says otherwise.EVERYTHING IS UNDERFUNDED IN THIS COUNTRY.Thats exactly what wealthy and non-minority areas want. Charter schools are often underfunded and understaffed. I've seen many of them struggle to provide even a decent education and many of them barely meet academic standards. Look at Louisiana. The damn governor down there wants to start teaching bible courses in lieu of science education.
If it wasn't for federal education mandates many parts of the country would be EVEN WORSE.
Keep thinking that "the community" knows best. Thats the same right-wing trope they've been pushing for decades to lessen the influence of having standards in communities. Removing those standards would make poor schools fall even farther while hoarding resources for more affluent and desirable areas.
YOU GET A BETTER EDUCATION AT A CHARTER SCHOOL THAN YOU WOULD AD A PUBLIC INNER CITY SCHOOL....PERIOD
...what?WHY ARE YOU SO APT ON CHAMPIONING CAUSES AND INSTITUTIONS THAT DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU EXIST OR EVEN CARE ABOUT YOU?
Medical Establishment? European Imperialism?BE IT LGBT, ATHIESM, DRAKE AND OTHER SUB PAR ARTIST, THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT, EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM, ETC.
Are you addressing me?ARE YOU SEEKING APPROVAL?
So don't read them.NT DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME UPVOTE SYSTEM AS REDDIT. EVERYBODY'S POST GET SEEN.
Who hurt you?STOP BEING SUCH A POLITICIAN ALL THE TIME.
Like most cities, not cheap.What is the cost of living in Chicago? Because those teachers get paid about $76,000 on average.
Derrick Rose can't eem read so I hope some of these kids will make it.