Health care and pension payments rose much faster than teacher salaries did and, as a result, benefits are eating up a growing share of teacher compensation. Teacher health care costs rose by 27.6 percent over the course of the decade, well above the rates for wages or inflation, but the real culprit was teacher pensions. Over the last decade, teacher retirement costs soared by 126.4 percent.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Does anyone know the math of for every new $1 in property tax increase, how much of that dollar goes to pensions vs. current services?
Cradle to grave is what many expect.
There are no benefits where the CTU or NEA are concerned, only losers–except of course for the teachers themselves.
Who are these losers?
Enough! Shut them down permanently.
Global warming is a grave concern and the world will end soon.