Comments on: Rise & Shine: Chicago teachers on strike after contract talks fail

By: Hadenoughoftweed

Hadenoughoftweed — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:10:00 +0000

Both the Post & News lists favor fully screened schools. What message does that send?

By: sosps

sosps — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:32:00 +0000

Generally speaking, I agree with you. However, the specific reason that Brooklyn Tech, Midwood, Cardozo and Francis Lewis are not on the list is that US News learned that the data for these schools that they used when they first published the list in May was wildly inaccurate. So they changed those schools to “unranked”.

http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2012/07/20/final-adjustments-to-best-high-schools-rankings

By: Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:01:00 +0000

It’s the Mayor who chose to pick a fight on those issues, rather than just admitting flat out that for financial reasons there is no decent future for non-charter school public education in Chicago.

Their pension hole is worse than ours, and the usual game plan is to just stick it to students and future teachers. I guess he does not want to admit it’s game over. It would make more sense to talk about the reality, and make the union make the case that there is a future that could be better, not worse, than the past.

One difference — I don’t think there will be even more retroactive pension increases in Illinois for a while. Whereas there are sure to be some here.

By: Mr. Flerporillo

Mr. Flerporillo — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:52:00 +0000

But big business, and ed deform, and people’s rights, and blah blah.

By: Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:37:00 +0000

They aren’t trimming budgets in Chicago. They are spending more and more, because their pension system is drastically underfunded.

Of course, teachers there could say that the overall tax burden in Illinois has been below the national average as a percent of the income of state residents, before a massive income tax increase (to about half our level). And teachers there could point on how little taxpayers contributed to the pension system for many years, accounting for a huge share of today’s problem.

Unlike teachers here, where the tax burden is just about the highest as a share of income, and taxpayer pension contributions were the highest even before 25/55.

By: Former Turnaround Teacher

Former Turnaround Teacher — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:13:00 +0000

I seriously commend the work of CTU for standing up for both teacher and student’s rights. I know this was a difficult choice, and is requiring a lot of sacrifice, but hopefully this shows that Ed Deformers cannot bully teachers and students in the name of trimming budgets, and big business interests. There will be a solidarity rally today at 5 PM meeting on the south side of Union Square.

By: BloombergMustGo

BloombergMustGo — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:11:00 +0000

Someone should explain to Mr. Klein that you can’t ignore something that doesn’t exist.

By: MiGente

MiGente — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:27:00 +0000

The Daily News List is garbage. When schools like Midwood, Murrow, Cardozo, Francis Lewis don’t make a best high schools list, you know what you are reading is propaganda. Not surprising for Mortimer Zuckerman who is following in the footsteps of Rupert Murdoch of publishing trash that benefits his interests and not reporting the facts. In addition, he is also on the Board of Directors of The Broad Superintendents Academy along with Michelle Rhee,
Wendy Kopp,
Richard Barth, & other Deformers.

Educators should boycott that trash paper.