Broke Chicago Public School System Lays Off 356 Teachers

[IAMX 3,055]

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Officials with the perpetually insolvent Chicago Public School system laid off 356 teachers and nearly 600 school support staffers this week.

The teachers and other employees received their pink slips from the taxpayer-funded school district on Monday, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.

Chicago’s elementary schools will have 240 fewer teachers this fall. Second City high schools will have 116 fewer teachers.

In addition to the 356 teachers, Chicago Public School officials also sacked 362 classroom aides and 221 employees who were security guards and special education aides.

 

Chicago Teachers Union spokeswoman Stacy Davis Gates blamed an ongoing budget battle between Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner in particular for the layoffs.

“Ultimately, the mayor has to stop waiting on a man who allowed the entire state to go without a budget for two years,” Gates told the Sun-Times. “If we’re waiting on Bruce Rauner to figure out how to equitably fund CPS, it’s not going to happen.”

 

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The median household income in Chicago is just $48,522 per year, according to the United States Census Bureau. The president of the Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, brings home an impressive total salary of over $211,000 annually, according to the Sun-Times. That is about $17,600 per month — about $4,100 per week. The teachers union boss also owns two vacation homes, according to Chicagoist.

Teachers in Chicago with five years of experience earn the highest salaries among the nation’s 50 biggest school districts, according to the Illinois Policy Institute, a free-market public policy group.

Lewis, who has been beaten badly in several political battles by Emanuel, seriously mulled her own bid to be mayor, using her union’s considerable local power to raise $2 million. (RELATED: Fresh Off WEIGHT REDUCTION SURGERY IN MEXICO, Karen Lewis May Run Against Mayor Rahm)

Chicago’s public schools borrowed over $700 million at ruinously high interest rates in 2016. An initial bond offering at 7 percent interest generated a lack of interested investors, forcing the effective yield to reach as high as 8.5 percent. Even at that rate, the $725 million in bonds sold was less than the nearly $800 million Chicago Public Schools had hoped to raise.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/09/broke-chicago-public-school-system-lays-off-356-teachers/

 

Just look at all the equality leftist governments impose. 

 

And amazing money management skills. 

 

Wish I could quit my job , give up on life, and move to a utopia like this. #MakeFoodStampsGreatAgain

Edited August 9, 2017 by IAMX

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13 hours ago, IAMX said:

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/09/broke-chicago-public-school-system-lays-off-356-teachers/

 

Just look at all the equality leftist governments impose. 

 

And amazing money management skills. 

 

Wish I could quit my job , give up on life, and move to a utopia like this. #MakeFoodStampsGreatAgain

Chicago is a perfect example of how great democrats can make a city.  

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Too bad Trump won't write an executive order abolishing all parties except the Republican Party. 

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7 minutes ago, spookyturtle said:

Too bad Trump won't write an executive order abolishing all parties except the Republican Party. 

Does the government control political parties?  Don't remember reading anything in the Constitution about political parties. 

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Just now, Bill & Katya said:

Does the government control political parties?  Don't remember reading anything in the Constitution about political parties. 

But wouldn't it be great if he did? 

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Just now, spookyturtle said:

But wouldn't it be great if he did? 

I doubt it would be enforceable, and honestly, why would anyone want to silence the MDL?  They provide so much fodder!

 

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Just now, Bill & Katya said:

I doubt it would be enforceable, and honestly, why would anyone want to silence the MDL?  They provide so much fodder!

 

Then the right wouldn't have anyone to blame for anything. It would be Utopia! Imagine if the Republicans had to take responsibility for themselves instead of blaming others? 

[IAMX 3,055]

5 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

I doubt it would be enforceable, and honestly, why would anyone want to silence the MDL?  They provide so much fodder!

 

I keep hearing about all this fascism and impeding on their first amendment, but reality bears a completely different result.

[jg121783 3,921]

Ah yes. The socialist utopia called Chicago. Where the victims are disarmed and union leaders rake in 6 figures for doing absolutely nothing.

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Just now, spookyturtle said:

Then the right wouldn't have anyone to blame for anything. It would be Utopia! Imagine if the Republicans had to take responsibility for themselves instead of blaming others? 

Don't the Republicans have to take the blame for everything now?  Obamacare is imploding, it's all the GOPs fault, the economy is tanking, blame Bush, the economy is now doing well "Thanks Obama".  Having one party wouldn't really change anything would it?  Looking at the recent past history, it is one side that seems to be in the mode of silencing the other and you can take a guess as to which side that is.  As Winston Churchill said "The fascist of the future will be called anti-fascists".

[IAMX 3,055]

3 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

Ah yes. The socialist utopia called Chicago. Where the victims are disarmed and union leaders rake in 6 figures for doing absolutely nothing.

Ugh that capitalism.

 

 

 

[RJandHamid 1,133]

Pretty sure this happens every year with Chicago public schools. Many of the teachers that are 'laid off' are then rehired at different Chicago public schools once actual enrollment numbers are determined. I do admit that I think that teaching union bosses and leaders need a pay cut...but that's another topic. Enrollment numbers in Chicago public schools are continuing to decrease year after year, so in a sense some cuts do make sense. I fully acknowledge that CPS (and the city of Chicago in general) have a major budget problem that needs to be addressed. 

[IAMX 3,055]

4 minutes ago, RJandHamid said:

Pretty sure this happens every year with Chicago public schools. Many of the teachers that are 'laid off' are then rehired at different Chicago public schools once actual enrollment numbers are determined. I do admit that I think that teaching union bosses and leaders need a pay cut...but that's another topic. Enrollment numbers in Chicago public schools are continuing to decrease year after year, so in a sense some cuts do make sense. I fully acknowledge that CPS (and the city of Chicago in general) have a major budget problem that needs to be addressed. 

I'd say so.. relying on the state to fix city budgeting messes is a huge red flag.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

19 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Don't the Republicans have to take the blame for everything now?  Obamacare is imploding, it's all the GOPs fault, the economy is tanking, blame Bush, the economy is now doing well "Thanks Obama".  Having one party wouldn't really change anything would it?  Looking at the recent past history, it is one side that seems to be in the mode of silencing the other and you can take a guess as to which side that is.  As Winston Churchill said "The fascist of the future will be called anti-fascists".

Trump said Obamacare will self destruct. So now it must.

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1 hour ago, spookyturtle said:

Trump said Obamacare will self destruct. So now it must.

I believe that was the plan all along when the Dems passed it and Obama signed it.