At Chicago’s Uplift High School there are 55 students and only 3% are reading proficient, yet Uplift has a Principal and an Assistant Principal both making $120K-plus – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer

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ProzacPlease
1 year ago

Hey downvoter, you missed some.

Last edited 1 year ago by ProzacPlease
PlunkYourMagicTwangerFroggy
1 year ago

The teachers and CPS administrators should get a big pay raise because of the great job they are doing, just ask them.

JackBolly
1 year ago

Featherbedding is a time honored union tradition. CTU has the ‘run of the mill’, so pucker up and pay Chicago.

Old Joe
1 year ago

Don’t confuse a government jobs program with education.

Rick
1 year ago

The team of CPS and CTU is a complete and utter failure. But who cares right? Because most of the students are black. This institution and its teachers spend $28,000 per student and they still fail miserably, if they received $100,000 per student the result would be the same. The CPS administration doesn’t give a damn about education. And the CTU is just pure evil. And parents that send their kids to CPS are child abusers.

ProzacPlease
1 year ago
Reply to  Rick

3% of 55 students are reading proficient. Since I did learn math at school way back when, I know that 3% of 55 = 1.65. So any money spent on this school was spent to teach 1 child to read, and provide day care for the rest. At least $240k just for the principal and assistant principal.

Instead of just a cost per pupil, it would be interesting to see the cost per proficient student.

Honest Jerk
1 year ago
Reply to  ProzacPlease

I think that would be ($28,000 x 55 / 1) or roughly 1.5 million dollars.

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