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Teachers in Bankrupt Pennsylvania School District Pledge to Work for Free - Education - GOOD

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Teachers in Bankrupt Pennsylvania School District Pledge to Work for Free

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Would you still go to work every day if your boss couldn't pay you? That's what 200 teachers and 65 other employees of Pennsylvania's Chester Upland School District have pledged to do after district officials told them that a $19 million budget shortfall meant they wouldn't be receiving salaries.

Sara Ferguson, who's been a teacher in Chester Upland—a 3,700-student school system just south of