The Chicago Public Schools teachers’ union agreed Tuesday to end the strike and accept some of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s reforms in exchange for pay increases that would bring the average teacher’s salary to $100,000 a year. Reforms include holding teachers partly accountable for their students standardized test scores. But according to a 2008 study by Illinois Education Research Council, CPS teachers don’t perform much better on standardized tests than their own students.
...the first Chicago teacher’s strike in a quarter of a century, but what were the issues at stake in this tumultuous affair? BestCollegesOnline.com reflects the numbers involved, though the true story may only be told in the city’s classrooms and backrooms.
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