Posted on 05/03/2024 9:39:35 PM PDT by Libloather
The Chicago Teachers Union's contract is set to expire in June which will soon prompt negotiations between educators and the school board.
Union President Stacy Davis Gates said in early March that her proposed contract for 2024 to 2028 'will cost $50 billion and 3 cents.'
'And so what?' Davis Gates added. 'That’s audacity. That’s Chicago.'
The teachers union is demanding nine percent cost of living adjustments every year.
According to Indeed, the average salary of a teacher in Chicago Public Schools is $67,718. With raises every year for four years, teachers would be getting paid about $95,000 a year by 2028, which is roughly 36 percent higher than the national average.
The $50 billion demand comes despite the fact that Chicago Public Schools spends more than $21,000 per student, far above the national average of $14,347, per the Census Bureau.
And even with the extra $7,000 that Chicago lavishes on its students, the cost doesn't appear to lead to better academic results.
Only 21 percent of eighth grade students in Chicago's public schools were proficient at reading as measured by the Nation's Report Card, which has been cataloguing students' academic performance across all subjects since 1969.
That's perhaps partly why Davis Gates has been sending her son to a prestigious private Catholic school, NBC reported in September 2023.
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In places like Chicago, extra money actually has negative utility - every extra dollar spent makes the schools WORSE.
Its not strange a concept. Extra money just funds more bureaucrat bloat, stronger ideological identification, more laziness and less responsibility.
Would you teach a room of 30 in a private for contract school for $630,000 a school year? I think I could manage on that.
This is a chance for Chicago to defund public schools. They’re not doing anything useful anyway. We have to burn the village to save it.
“30”
I think the average class size is around 16 nowadays.
“Special education” is very expensive.
“Black and Hispanic students also struggled to meet proficiency, especially compared to white and Asian students. Just 17% of Black students in grades 3 through 8 scored at proficiency in reading and 8% in math, while 22% of Hispanic students scored at grade level in reading and 13% in math.
“Meanwhile, 54% of white students were proficient in reading and 48% in math. Asian students scored as proficient in core subjects at greater rates, with over half reading and performing math at or above grade level.”
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-public-schools-dysfunction-hits-low-income-minority-students/
There are charter schools in Chicago.
Parents have choices.
” Hypocrite leader educates son privately”
We noticed a similar situation when we lived in HI in the ‘90s. Many public school teachers sent their kids to private schools — where they could get a good education. Not sure how it is now
There’s always concern over higher salaries and less work - never concern over turning out stupid kids.
So maybe the Chicago tax payers should support a law that says teachers’ students must be able to compete with the rest of the world’s students at any given grade level or they must resign and pay back their salaries that was paid to them to educate their students.
Things just become more and more elaborate and costly.
“ There are charter schools in Chicago.”
They are all run by Leftists UNO Charter is one of the worst.
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