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| Broke Chicago Public School System Lays Off 356 Teachers |
| 2017-08-10 |
| [DAILYCALLER] Officials with the perpetually insolvent reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... 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." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 How many of those heads are Obama fluff pruning? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-08-10 17:35 |
| #10 I don't think the Guv'nor should be the sole blame in this case: 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. 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. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-08-10 16:22 |
| #9 Yeah, the teachers who got laid off are probably the lucky ones. Now they can move to other parts of the country and get decent jobs in decent districts. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-08-10 10:54 |
| #8 My sister, as a young teacher back in the 70's, started out at an inner city school. The older teachers dumped all of their ADHD problem children on the new teacher. As my sister explained:"One kid--place in the front row, two kids--put them in opposite corners, three or more kids--utter chaos as they feed off of each other..." She finished out her contract and got out of there. |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-08-10 09:17 |
| #7 From the results coming out of Chicago I don't think there will be a decline in the final product. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-08-10 09:15 |
| #6 Chicago is broke. Illinois is broke. I just didn't realize how broke. Heard last night that millionaires and the well-heeled are fleeing Illinois in huge numbers. There goes their tax base. They have serious long-range pension problems. Illinois will probably be the first state to default; California next? I just hope they are not lefties spreading their rubbish to other stable states. Even if they don't spread their rubbish to other states the problems of states like Illinois and California will likely become the problems of the people in other states. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-10 09:14 |
| #5 "If we’re waiting on Bruce Rauner to figure out how to equitably fund CPS, BTW could you explain to me Mr. Gates why the governor is responsible for cleaning up the messes of the city pols? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-08-10 08:51 |
| #4 As Democrats tell us: DO it to the Children. or Do it for the Children. 0r Do it on a child. ( Anyway.... Democrats know what they mean.) whatever..... |
| Posted by: Heriberto Spavitch5496 2017-08-10 07:09 |
| #3 If that's the case, I stand corrected. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-08-10 01:30 |
| #2 What makes you think they laid off the 'horrible' teachers. Its a big-Union shop so they probably worked by senority and not merit. Horrible teachers which have been there for decades and are pro's at playing the system remain while better, newer, teachers with new idea are kicked to the curb. Of course the kids are the ones who suffer. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-08-10 00:56 |
| #1 Since a lot of 'public' school teachers are horrible, it's addition by subtraction. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-08-10 00:37 |