DEI: Chicago’s teachers insisted that higher pay would unlock student success. The city obliged, hiking per-student spending by 70 percent and boosting average teacher salaries to $100,000. The result? Failure on a grander scale. Today, just 11 percent of black students in Chicago are proficient in reading — a tragic monument to the bankrupt promises of a broken system.
I work with CPS as a vendor (as little as possible). Complete shit-show. Make you jump through ridiculous, ever-changing hoops to do business, never pay bills in a timely manner, etc.
Enrollment has tanked over the last 15 years, but staff is up, nonstop.
Aside from making far more than most of the kids parents, 3x the national average (30% va 10%) of these ‘all for the children’ teachers send their own kids to private schools.
CPS is the Chicago Way.
Is that supposed to be a teacher carrying a Louis Vuitton purse on 100k/year? I think everyone can agree that a lot of money is being wasted by an inefficient system, but don’t get fooled into thinking that teacher salaries are where money is being wasted. The overhead on special programs, administration and legal protections is out of control. 100k might be the average, but 60k is the starting salary for teachers in the Chicago area… when you consider that the average housing cost is 2k/month, that means you have to go through 4-6 years of school, and be willing to make a salary that puts you in a position where you can’t afford the average housing costs on 1/3 of your income, with little room for upward mobility and a hard cap on earnings… not to mention that we all know that 100k isn’t what it once was. Auto workers are making 40% more than 4 years ago… teachers, not so much… As long as teacher pay is structured this way, it should be no surprise that we’re not getting the best and brightest teaching our kids.
