WEEKEND QUOTABLES
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| Jesse Sharkey |
As the threat of a teachers strike looms larger in Chicago, the result of Rahm's unwillingness to bargain seriously over job security and longer school day, Sharkey says:
“There’s still some more runway left where we can land this plane.”Sharkey says a key to unlocking the stalemate is the hiring back of "effective veteran teachers" who currently are being replaced with lower-paid teachers who are just starting out, many of them TFAers.
“We know that teachers just starting out have a 50 percent [dropout] rate. It’s actually a job that lot of people can’t do.