A Look at the Deal that Ended the Chicago Teachers Strike | |
By: David Dayen Wednesday September 19, 2012 10:58 am |
• Arts, music and physical education teachers: Over 600 additional teachers will be hired permanently under the agreement. The city didn’t want to increase staff at all. In addition, more support staff may come in the form of additional social workers and nurses, contingent on state revenue.
• Special Ed. The issue of special education teachers having oversized workloads moves to a committee tasked with finding “solutions,” which probably doesn’t mean too much but you never know. But there is $500,000 per year toward hiring additional special education professionals to reduce caseload.
• Health care. This was, as I understand it, the big sticking point