Mediator: Chicago teachers deserve raise
Independent mediator Edwin Benn says teachers deserve a 14.85 percent raise because the mandate for a longer day means they could be working 19.4 percent more time.
Independent mediator Edwin Benn says teachers deserve a 14.85 percent raise because the mandate for a longer day means they could be working 19.4 percent more time.
More Chicago Public Schools students are meeting state standards than ever before, according to preliminary test results. But the overall increase was the smallest it has been in years.
Schools with admissions policies—charter, magnet and selective enrollment—see an increase in both funding and positions. About 87 percent of the city’s 100 charter schools will get more money from CPS, compared to just 30 percent of traditional public schools.
CPS teachers claim the district is creating a financial crisis to justify underpaying them.
The school district will hold three simultaneous hearings Wednesday evening to get feedback on its proposed $5 billion budget, which just went public on Friday. Some parents say the public wasn’t given enough notice.
The U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights says it wants to remind school districts that they can use race in their admissions policies. That came in response to an analysis by WBEZ that shows deepening segregation in the metro Chicago.
For white students in suburban Chicago, school has become a much more diverse place in the last 20 years. But the region has seen a jump during that time in the number of highly segregated black and Latino schools, a new WBEZ analysis shows.
School officials are facing race head on in southwest Plainfield, where schools that used to be almost all white have almost even racial balance today.
Activists said they are filing separate civil rights complaints arguing that national education reforms — like school closings, turnarounds and charter schools — negatively affect black and Latino children.