Getting paid in Chicago...
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What is the average teacher workyear in the US? 9 months? 10 months?
(I do understand that it would be hard for a teacher to find a 2-3 month job when it is the school break, but $/yr is somewhat mislead when it is not a full 12 month year. And yes, teachers do have a hard job)
@taiwan_girl said in Getting paid in Chicago...:
What is the average teacher workyear in the US? 9 months? 10 months?
(I do understand that it would be hard for a teacher to find a 2-3 month job when it is the school break, but $/yr is somewhat mislead when it is not a full 12 month year. And yes, teachers do have a hard job)
Depends on the teacher. Down here, classroom guys work about 9 months. Band teachers and VoAg teachers work 10-11 months, depending on school district. Master teachers work 10 months. Principals, Asst. Principals and coaches tend to work 11-12 months.
Personally, I like the Texas Robin Hood Law. I know it stinks for rich districts, but it sure does level the playing field in recruiting the best teachers and helps with some facilities (I think it absolutely awful to pass by a Texas high school and see a 20,000 seat football stadium).
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@taiwan_girl said in Getting paid in Chicago...:
What is the average teacher workyear in the US? 9 months? 10 months?
(I do understand that it would be hard for a teacher to find a 2-3 month job when it is the school break, but $/yr is somewhat mislead when it is not a full 12 month year. And yes, teachers do have a hard job)
Depends on the teacher. Down here, classroom guys work about 9 months. Band teachers and VoAg teachers work 10-11 months, depending on school district. Master teachers work 10 months. Principals, Asst. Principals and coaches tend to work 11-12 months.
Personally, I like the Texas Robin Hood Law. I know it stinks for rich districts, but it sure does level the playing field in recruiting the best teachers and helps with some facilities (I think it absolutely awful to pass by a Texas high school and see a 20,000 seat football stadium).
@Jolly said in Getting paid in Chicago...:
I like the Texas Robin Hood Law.
What is that? (I assume taking from the rich and giving to the poor in some way?)
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@Jolly said in Getting paid in Chicago...:
I like the Texas Robin Hood Law.
What is that? (I assume taking from the rich and giving to the poor in some way?)
@taiwan_girl said in Getting paid in Chicago...:
@Jolly said in Getting paid in Chicago...:
I like the Texas Robin Hood Law.
What is that? (I assume taking from the rich and giving to the poor in some way?)
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Thanks!
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Chicago teachers' $50B demands include pay hikes, abortions, migrant accommodation
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is negotiating a new contract with the public schools system and is understood to be calling for an extra $50 billion to pay for wage hikes as well as other demands such as fully paid abortions for its members, new migrant services and facilities and a host of LGBT-related requirements and training in schools.
To put the figure into context, the total base tax receipts for the state of Illinois last year were $50.7 billion.
The incredible demands are being made despite its members delivering underwhelming results for its students, with only 21 percent of the city’s eighth graders being proficient readers, according to the last Nation’s Report Card, which provides national results about students' performance...
Union President Stacy Davis Gates’ audacious plan calls for members to bank at least 9% wage increases each year through fiscal year 2028.
The average salary of a teacher in Chicago Public Schools is $93,182, according to research by the Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative nonprofit think tank. Therefore, the average teacher’s pay will increase by half to $144,620 in the 2027-2028 school year, it says.
That figure would equate to more than double the median household income in Chicago, according to Census Bureau statistics.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the CPS budget will exceed $9 billion this year, up nearly 30% from $7.4 billion just five years ago. Much of that increase is reflected in teacher salaries, which are among the highest of any big-city teachers in the country.
Last school year, the district spent more than $21,000 per student, far above the national average of $14,347, according to census data. ...
There is also a whole host of other social justice provisions the union wants, including making sure workers and educators are trained annually on LGBTQ+ issues as a qualification in their job description.
The union also wants to mandate that every school in the district has at least one gender-neutral bathroom.
Additionally, it wants the board to adopt policies that would prohibit any member from being compelled to tell parents when a student rejects his or her sex, according to the documents.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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extra $50 billion to pay for wage hikes as well as other demands such as fully paid abortions for its members,
Additionally, it wants the board to adopt policies that would prohibit any member from being compelled to tell parents when a student rejects his or her sex, according to the documents.
So they don’t want to parent their children, and don’t believe you should parent yours.
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Chicago teachers' $50B demands include pay hikes, abortions, migrant accommodation
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is negotiating a new contract with the public schools system and is understood to be calling for an extra $50 billion to pay for wage hikes as well as other demands such as fully paid abortions for its members, new migrant services and facilities and a host of LGBT-related requirements and training in schools.
To put the figure into context, the total base tax receipts for the state of Illinois last year were $50.7 billion.
The incredible demands are being made despite its members delivering underwhelming results for its students, with only 21 percent of the city’s eighth graders being proficient readers, according to the last Nation’s Report Card, which provides national results about students' performance...
Union President Stacy Davis Gates’ audacious plan calls for members to bank at least 9% wage increases each year through fiscal year 2028.
The average salary of a teacher in Chicago Public Schools is $93,182, according to research by the Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative nonprofit think tank. Therefore, the average teacher’s pay will increase by half to $144,620 in the 2027-2028 school year, it says.
That figure would equate to more than double the median household income in Chicago, according to Census Bureau statistics.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the CPS budget will exceed $9 billion this year, up nearly 30% from $7.4 billion just five years ago. Much of that increase is reflected in teacher salaries, which are among the highest of any big-city teachers in the country.
Last school year, the district spent more than $21,000 per student, far above the national average of $14,347, according to census data. ...
There is also a whole host of other social justice provisions the union wants, including making sure workers and educators are trained annually on LGBTQ+ issues as a qualification in their job description.
The union also wants to mandate that every school in the district has at least one gender-neutral bathroom.
Additionally, it wants the board to adopt policies that would prohibit any member from being compelled to tell parents when a student rejects his or her sex, according to the documents.
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All this information is public information.
https://www.cps.edu/about/finance/employee-position-files/
Here's the top of the spreadsheet.
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Teachers flee nation's largest union in a crisis of its own making
During the 2023 school year, NEA funneled a whopping $176 million of dues revenue directly to the pockets of political candidates and ideological causes
For the sixth year in a row, the National Education Association (NEA) faces a mass exodus of members. But the blame doesn’t lie with a shrinking student population or loss of funding, as NEA president Becky Pringle would have you believe. The NEA’s blatant prioritization of a radical political agenda at the expense of member representation is the true culprit, resulting in a loss of more than 12,000 members in 2023, per the union’s latest financial report.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/teachers-flee-nations-largest-union-crisis-making
