Life in Rahm’s Chicago. For most teachers, it’s a ten hour day.
University of Illinois labor researcher Robert Bruno.
Rahm says he is willing to pull back on his plan for a seven and a half hour school day.
He still has offered no clue as to compensation or a plan for instructional use.
The truth is that for most teachers it is already a ten hour day, according to a new study by University of Illinois researchers.
The claim that Chicago public school teachers aren’t working enough hours during the school day are unwarranted at best and intellectually dishonest at worst, according to research from a University of Illinois labor expert.
The contentious debate between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis over the length of the school day has focused on Chicago public schools having the shortest official day of any major city – five