America's school year (about 180 days) is one of the shortest in the industrial world, and while middle-class children may leaven their summers with strolls through the Louvre, less privileged children experience "summer learning loss." Remediation requires the first few weeks of the fall term, which effectively further shortens the school year. And Chicago's school day is the shortest of any large US district.
The CTU wants a pay raise - 30 percent - proportional to Emanuel's 90-minute increase in the school day and 10-day increase in the school year. He has canceled a 4 percent raise and offers only 2 percent. He says benefits the CTU has won - e.g., many teachers pay nothing toward generous pensions they can collect at age 60 - could in just three years force property taxes up 150 percent and require classes with 55 students.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/chicago_school_war_R
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To counter demands for wage hikes from city workers in the 1990s, Stockton offered to extend their health insurance in retirement past age 65 - a benefit they embraced and assumed to be rock solid until the insolvent city's officials put it on the chopping block in a bankruptcy plan last week.
"It was a balancing act," said Dwane Milnes, Stockton's city manager at the time. "The unions wanted retiree medical ... We said if you want to continue your medical for current employees and retirees, you'll have to do it through wage containment."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/03/us-stockton-bankruptcy-cause-i
dUSBRE8621DL20120703
FDR was right and these cases are hurting everyone involved - except the long gone politicians and politicians called union leaders, who made these rotten deals.
The CTU wants a pay raise - 30 percent - proportional to Emanuel's 90-minute increase in the school day and 10-day increase in the school year. He has canceled a 4 percent raise and offers only 2 percent. He says benefits the CTU has won - e.g., many teachers pay nothing toward generous pensions they can collect at age 60 - could in just three years force property taxes up 150 percent and require classes with 55 students.
Read more:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/chicago_school_war_R
AuUOrTARmYh7yThzlmvFP#ixzz1zmNvQodm
To counter demands for wage hikes from city workers in the 1990s, Stockton offered to extend their health insurance in retirement past age 65 - a benefit they embraced and assumed to be rock solid until the insolvent city's officials put it on the chopping block in a bankruptcy plan last week.
"It was a balancing act," said Dwane Milnes, Stockton's city manager at the time. "The unions wanted retiree medical ... We said if you want to continue your medical for current employees and retirees, you'll have to do it through wage containment."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/03/us-stockton-bankruptcy-cause-i
dUSBRE8621DL20120703
FDR was right and these cases are hurting everyone involved - except the long gone politicians and politicians called union leaders, who made these rotten deals.
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