Chicago Teacher’s Union (CTU) VS Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Angel Tijerina Conflict and Negotiations Samuelson Psyc 489-502 Introduction: “Enough is enough,” stated Chicago Teacher’s Union President Karen Lewis. After a summer’s full of argument over contract revisions, CTU filed the 10-day strike notice on Wednesday August 29, 2012 in attempts to light a fire under Chicago Public School district’s feet. Less than a week remained before the majority of the district’s schools were reopened for the fall semester, and CTU was unhappy with their prospects and lack of progress in getting their needs met. With Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s new regime in full swing, education fund cuts, slashed teacher pay raises, and school shutdowns were frequent items
Dear Rahm Emanuel, 2-20-2011 I know there are many people against you for running for chicago’s next mayor, but I am for you. I think you will make some of chicago problems better like our communities crime, the many abondend homes and the schools. The three things I named is what I feel really need to be looked at by chicago. I feel they are not paying that much attention to these issues because they are paying attention to getting more money from people. I will clearly explain to you in this letter why these points should be payed attention to a little more.
As the Chicago teachers strike moves into a second school week, the primary — and often thorny — issues continue to revolve around how teachers are paid, evaluated and rehired when a school closes. Here is an update of the key issues: Teacher pay: The union and Chicago Public Schools appear to agree on a traditional salary schedule that other districts have begun to abandon. CPS teachers will be eligible for three kinds of raises: a base raise; a "step" raise for adding a year of experience, and a "lane" raise for a master's degree and additional graduate credits. The automatic base increase would be 3 percent in the first year and 2 percent in the next two years, under a three-year contract. If the contract is extended to a fourth year, the base raise would be 3 percent.
Controversy Controversy North Shore School District 112, which is located in Northern Lake County, Illinois, and represents 12 schools in the school district. The several communities that the district serves are Highland Park, Highwood, and Fort Sheridan. The district, which boasts of more than 100 years of educating children, has called for a strike recently. The teachers are not worried about the 4,300 students who are taught, they are worried about better pay, benefits, and advancement. It is understood in the United States than one an individual joins the workforce one expects certain amount of compensation and teachers are no different.
Are We Asking Too Much From Our Teachers? In August, Chicago teachers went on strikes. The teachers went on strike a day after they were given a nice pay raise. New teachers were being hired because the schools were now got to make the school day longer, meaning that teacher were going to have to work an extra 30mins, meaning a longer planning lesson. The article author Alex Kotlowitz say that union president Karen Lewis complain about the lack of air conditioning in schools and the new teacher evaluation system with the new teacher evaluation some teacher s would be laid off; many thought that this was unfair .
The documentary, “Waiting on Superman” portrays teachers as both the solution and the problem to the education system in America. It shows the efforts of some teachers battling the bureaucracy which is the school administration and teachers unions. It shows that teachers unions are more for the protection or “right-to-work” of the teachers, regardless of whether the teacher is effective. Also, shows unions are against rewarding good teachers over their weaker counterparts. The documentary follows a few students as they prepare for a lottery system to hopefully to escape the failing school system.
The percentage of high school drop outs in United States is very high, and some these students that drop out end up in prison or other terrible places such as drug dealing or gangs. In the documentary they also showed some schools with a lot of gang activity and gang violence. Parents of these students work very hard to pay taxes and keep there children in school, in hop that there children will get a good education. Some parents take tons of loans so they can send there kids to a private school, because the public schools are not teaching there students well. These hard working parents and dedicated teachers all want to see America with a brighter future, they are doing what they can to make sure that there children grow up to be important part of a good generation.
By contrast, a study of all types of special educators showed that only 9% planned to leave their jobs in the near future (George, 1995). High stress levels and job dissatisfaction are likely reasons for EBD teachers to leave their jobs. A high rate of attrition affects the quality of education students with EBD receive and their behavior by nature demands more skilled and reliable teacher support (Nelson, 2001). The modem era of special education services goes back to roughly the middle of the twentieth century. Many things have changed: our whole understanding of children with disabilities, technical definitions of these disabilities, classification systems, different views of the role that families play, curricula, assessment, professional standards, service delivery, education of teachers, and the changing roles of the professionals providing educational services (Paul, 1997).
He insists that he is owed overtime pay for the remaining 450 hours. During school holiday periods, EDS also hires high school students (aged 14 and older) to assist in processing orders at its two national distribution centers. EDS does not allow the students to work more than 6 hours per day or more than 36 hours per week, and they may not work with the mechanical sorting equipment. The students are paid minimum wage, and the job is advertised as a “paid internship.” The local high school complains that students who work at EDS over school holidays are returning exhausted, and that no one under age 16 should be permitted to work there. Renee, a scheduling manager for EDS, worked an average of 50 hours per week last year.
The authors emphasize in this chapter that, “An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing” (17). This shows the power of incentives and how they cause people to cheat through third grade teachers in Chicago Public Schools. They explain that in order to gain honorable status within a school, teachers must have their class perform well on standardized testing. Because they want recognition and possible a greater wage, teacher are pressured to cheat to help their students