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The Policy Shop: How the Chicago Teachers Union lobbies for failure

The Policy Shop: How the Chicago Teachers Union lobbies for failure

This edition of The Policy Shop is by policy analyst Hannah Schmid. If you were given $68,000 per student and two staffers for every three students, what do you think the result would be? National Honor Society graduates with Ivy League schools clamoring for their presence? Well, not if you gave that money to the Chicago Teachers...