◼ Turn Down $400 Million Deal, 16% Pay Raise - Chicago Sun-Times ◼ Via Drudge
◼ How Much Do Chicago Public School Teachers Make? Highest Average Salary In Nation: Average $76,000 per year before benefits - Chicago CBS Local
◼ Chicago Bled Dry by Striking Teachers’ Unions - John Fund/National Review
◼ SOME SCHOOLS OPEN -- BUT JUST TO SERVE FREE MEALS - CNS News
◼ 400,000 STUDENTS UNLEASHED - NBC Chicago
Chicago teachers make an average of between $69,470 and $76,000 per year, second highest to New York City. Vitale said the deal CPS put on the table includes a 16 percent average salary increase.
◼ Teacher retirement costs will consume 50% of education funding Chicago receives from state by Fiscal Year 2014 - illinoispolicy.org
◼ Cops Pour Onto Streets to Deal With 'Unsupervised Kids' - NBC Chicago
◼ GODFATHER (Rahm Emanuel) 'DISAPPOINTED,' VOWS TO END STRIKE - APNews
◼ Rahm's kids' school open; attend elite $25,000-a-year 'lab' - Daniel Halper/Weekly Standard
◼ 25,000 Chicago Teachers Walk Off the Job - Heritage
◼ NOT PRESENT: Obama no comment... - Weekly Standard
◼ 79% of Chicago 8th Graders 'Not Proficient in Reading' - CNS News
◼ READING, WRITING, AND PAYCHECKS - Chicago Tribune
◼ Teachers' Strike Roils Families' Lives - NYT
◼ 'GODFATHER' LOSES CONTROL - Bloomberg
