chicago teachers just got a huge raise

How dare a teacher get a raise when some CEOs only get a million a year!
 
To a rightwingnut, spending money on education means that teachers get a raise...

Chicago Public Schools officials say they'll spend $30 million in federal stimulus dollars on approximately 1,200 high school students who are at risk of committing violence or falling victim to it.

School violence will be a major challenge this school year for Ron Huberman in his first full year on the job as CEO.

CBS 2's Rob Johnson went one on one with this rising star in the Daley administration who's held high-profile jobs ranging from head of emergency management, the mayor's chief of staff to CTA president and now top administrator of Chicago Public Schools.

"Is this your greatest challenge?" Johnson asked Huberman.

"This is by far the greatest challenge," he said. "This is also simply the most important job anyone can have, which is ensuring that we do everything we can to improve the opportunities for all of our students."

For Huberman, that means giving kids the chance to be safe. Johnson and Huberman walked the halls of Percy Julian High School on the South Side. That's where four of the more than three dozen students killed over the past year attended school.

Huberman's new anti-violence initiative was on his mind. It includes helping high-risk students, making sure kids have safe passage to and from school and creating what he calls a culture of calm.

"That ensures there's respect between the students, respect between students and the adults in the building," Huberman said.

"How do you instill that in a school, how do you get people to get it?" Johnson asked.

Huberman: "Training the teachers and principals in those buildings how you go about creating a culture that is student-supportive -- that ensures respect amongst everyone, that values peace."

Johnson: "I know when you first got the job there was some criticism, 'Hey, he doesn't have an education background, he has an administration background.' Have you found that to be a challenge, and have you overcome those detractors?"

Huberman: "Well, I tell you, this is a team effort, and so this is not ever about Ron Huberman. The Chicago public school system is a large school system."

But Huberman knows it will take more than that large school system, and the police, to make the learning environment secure and productive. It will take steps like partnering with community groups and ministers, as he did this week to get the word out about the first day of school.

Johnson: "How do you make sure that everybody in this neighborhood and every neighborhood across Chicago understands that this is a shared responsibility?"

Huberman: "This is everyone's collective responsibility. We would be naive to think that CPS could do this alone."

CPS has called for a controversial 1.5 percent property tax increase to plug its huge budget hole, which will help fund early childhood and bilingual and after-school programs.

"We did ask people for a little bit more, but what we have told them in return are things we know are critical to the outcomes of our kids are going to be preserved," Huberman said.

Huberman said in the six months since CPS and the Chicago Police Department began sharing information about school violence, progress has been made. But he added as long as students continue to get shot, no one is going to say those results are successful.
 
DNC said:
How dare a teacher get a raise when some CEOs only get a million a year!
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red herring....what the private sector does is NOT the same as the public tax dollar sector.....

go back to your civics teacher and kick them in the shin.....they failed you
 
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