Chicago teachers already receive the highest average salary in the country.

Crime will be on the rise in Chi-town.

Nine month year, with Summers off and a short workday. Tenure and a 16% raise that is "too low". Can "retire" after 20 years with a big penson and then continue teaching at a different school to nearly double your pay?

True?

but they need more based on the quality of inner city negro they turn out. i live here believe me they turn out quality thugs.

So this is why they are striking!

Give them a raise?
Flock you!
I'd fire every one of your sorry asses!

Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading
By Terence P. Jeffrey
September 10, 2012

Chicago Public Schools

(CNSNews.com) - Seventy-nine percent of the 8th graders in the Chicago Public Schools are not grade-level proficient in reading, according to the U.S. Department of Education, and 80 percent are not grade-level proficient in math.

Chicago public school teachers went on strike on Monday and one of the major issues behind the strike is a new system Chicago plans to use for evaluating public school teachers in which student improvement on standardized tests will count for 40 percent of a teacher’s evaluation. Until now, the evaluations of Chicago public school teachers have been based on what a Chicago Sun Times editorial called a “meaningless checklist.”

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Nationally, public school 8th graders scored an average of 264 on the NAEP reading test. Statewide in Illinois, the 8th graders did a little better, scoring an average of 266. But in the Chicago Public Schools, 8th graders scored an average of only 253 in reading. That was lower even than the nationwide average of 255 among 8th graders in “large city” public schools.

With these NAEP test results, only 19 percent of Chicago public school 8th graders rated proficient in reading while another 2 percent rated advanced—for a total of 21 percent who rated proficient or better.

79 percent of Chicago public school 8th graders were not grade-level proficient in reading. According to the U.S. Department of Education, this included 43 percent who rated “basic” and 36 percent who rated “below basic.”