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Eleventh Hour Agreement Averts Strike By 28,000 Chicago Teachers

A strike by 28,000 Chicago teachers was narrowly averted Monday evening when the Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative agreement with the school district only minutes before their midnight deadline.  With the strike off, classes are continuing as usual Tuesday morning.  Financed by 88 million dollars of surplus funds from the city’s Tax Increment Financing district, the agreement includes cost-of-living increases in the last two years of the

Prop 55 Prevents School Cuts, Keeps California Moving in Right Direction

California’s comeback from the brink of financial ruin during the Great Recession is one of the greatest success stories in a generation. While states like Kansas and Wisconsin responded to budgetary uncertainty by cutting education funding with disastrous results, California voters took a different approach, enacting Prop 30 in 2012 to boost school funding to shrink class sizes, hire teachers, bolster community colleges and fund children’s health care.

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