{"id":15791,"date":"2012-09-12T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T16:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15791"},"modified":"2012-09-12T15:46:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T19:46:41","slug":"chicago-charters-are-better-bargain-than-teachers-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15791\/chicago-charters-are-better-bargain-than-teachers-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Charters Are Better Bargain Than Teachers Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2012\/eon0911cs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Schneider<\/a>\u00a0 writing in City Journal shows the vivid cost\/benefit contrast between members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and their public charter school counterparts.\u00a0 CTU members average $76,000 in annual salary <em>before benefits<\/em>, while public charter school teachers make $49,000.<\/p>\n<p>Charter school teachers are a bargain.\u00a0 A study by the Illinois Policy Institute cited by Schneider indicates that nine of Chicago\u2019s top ten performing schools are open-enrollment, non-selective charter high schools.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with this kind of competition, CTU members did what any self-respecting public employee union would do when offered a sixteen percent pay raise in exchange for linking employment to student test results \u2013 they went on strike.<\/p>\n<p>Change is coming to all levels of the education industry.\u00a0 Groups like CTU need to adapt to the new reality of pay-for-performance or risk expulsion from the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Schneider\u00a0 writing in City Journal shows the vivid cost\/benefit contrast between members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and their public charter school counterparts.\u00a0 CTU members average $76,000 in annual salary before benefits, while public charter school teachers make $49,000. Charter school teachers are a bargain.\u00a0 A study by the Illinois Policy Institute cited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3812,229,64,3602,2679,3601,1447,3310,1801,1051],"class_list":["post-15791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-charter","tag-chicago","tag-education","tag-employee","tag-illinois","tag-public","tag-reform","tag-school","tag-teacher","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15791"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15795,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions\/15795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}