Thousands of teachers strike in Chicago
News VideoNearly 26,000 teachers and support staff have joined teacher strike in Chicago because they want fair contracts. They have been trying to negotiate a contract for about 10 months and still haven't figured out a plan. Yet, Chicago is the 3rd largest school district in the country so the students should have came first. There are 400,000 students now not in class while this teacher strike is going on. Now recreation churches and some school cafeterias are open only to serve breakfast and lunch. Chicago has the highest paid of any city at 76,000 a year and they were suppost to get a 16% higher raise over the next 4 years but the teachers want 34%. Teachers are also worrying about the new teacher evaluation, which is the city evaluationing the students grades to evaluate the teachers. There has been no specific response from the president and Romney is using that to his advantage, especially how Chicago is President Obama's home city.
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