EAGnews.org recently submitted an open records request to the Philadelphia school district, and it yielded a bonanza of juicy details about how the school system is spending taxpayer dollars.
While most of the items were contained in our recent report, “Sucking the Life Out of America’s Public Schools: The Expense of Teachers Union Contracts,” a few of the district’s expenditures deserve more attention.
For example, the roughly 16,000 members of the local teachers union--the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers--claimed a total of 3,122 days off for “jury duty.”
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And...are you supposed to be able to provide for your family when you are called to jury duty and make 5 dollars an hour.
How is this even a story? 16,000 teachers working 180 days is 2,880,000 man-days. 3,122 days for jury duty is next to nothing. can we stop the teacher bashing? sheesh.
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