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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great. Taxes will definitely go up. I have mixed feelings about this. I want teachers to be paid well, but I’m worried that teachers unions sometimes encouraging rent-seeking behavior without benefiting students or taxpayers.[/quote]

VA has some of the worst educator compensation in the entire country, so employees asking for better pay and working conditions is going to directly benefit the students in PWCS[/quote]

Chicago facts state otherwise:

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-demands-51k-raise-for-average-teacher/
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This is a blog post by a conservative anti-public education think tank. Criticizing pay raises doesn't account for a) how abhorently low Chicago educator salaries were to begin with, prior to recent CTU success; b) that teachers have masters degrees, so the comparison with the "average private sector worker" should be with private sector workers with graduate degrees. Intentionally sloppy and misleading.

PLUS it says absolutely nothing about Virginia. Moreover, Chicago has probably the most powerful teachers union in the entire country, so it's hardly an instructive comparison with Virginia unions with a fundamentally different political landscape.[/quote]

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