CHICAGO – The Chicago Teachers Union, or CTU, on Feb. 1 rejected Chicago Public Schools’, or CPS’, contract offer, which would have provided salary increases for teachers but required that they contribute fully to their pensions.
Given CTU’s rejection of the contract – and the vitriol that CTU officials directed at CPS after the district’s Feb. 2 announcementof layoff plans and other cost-saving measures – the taxpayers who pay the teachers’ salaries and benefits should consider the teachers’ current pay. Chicagoans can ill afford another CTU contract that includes big pay raises – according to U.S. Census Bureau data, the median earnings of the Chicago taxpayers paying teachers’ salaries was $31,096 between 2009 and 2013. The median salary for a CPS teacher, on the other hand, is $78,910.
Chicago public school teachers are also well-compensated compared to their peers in other districts. A comparison among the 50 largest U.S. school districts reveals that Chicago teachers now rank among the top three highest-paid groups of teachers in each of the three categories of teacher pay measured by the National Council on Teacher Quality.
After five years on the job, CPS teachers with bachelor’s degrees earn $61,831, the highest salary among teachers in this category in all of the 50 largest school districts in the country. Philadelphia comes in second place at $60,202, and Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Maryland finishes third at $54,202. New York City pays teachers in this category $53,329, and in Milwaukee, these teachers make $46,085; in the Baltimore City Public School System, these teachers make $47,950 (the eighth-highest.)
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Wouldn't do it for $100K.
ReplyDeleteHeard they're striking again. What a bunch of dweebs...Surprised that's not happening all the time in Wicomico considering they all like to hoist themselves up as our community's leading martyrs.
ReplyDeleteGuess the union bosses need another raise. Seems like they send their peeps out every time the way to raise their annual dues.
ReplyDeleteThe highest paid teachers in the nation and all of them are black. The largest crime ridden city in the world and we want to continue helping this "group" of people.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to cut off welfare because obviously education isn't working.
Now John Fredericksen and the Wicomico Board of Education this is proof that paying teachers more money is a waste of hard earned tax dollars.
Amen
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