Our view: Lessons from strike
The average teacher in the city of Chicago earns more than $70,000 a year in salary alone. That figure does not include benefits.
Chicago teachers work the shortest school day of the 10 largest districts in the country.
And they get among the worst results – an alarming four of 10 children who start freshman year at a public high school in Chicago do not graduate, according to the Illinois Policy Institute.
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