Just today in chicago,IL the cps teachers have decided to go on strike. All public schools are closed until it is resolved. If you have a child the church is willing to accept them.
What do you guys think the outcome will be of this?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/10/chicago-teachers-strike-mayor-emanuel?newsfeed=true

An article on the issue. You'll notice at the very end that Romney jumped at the chance to criticize his opponent on a relatively unrelated issue like a starving dog to a rotting steak, but that's neither here nor there.

The issue should resolve itself fairly soon, being that most of the citizens support the teacher unions, but there was a follow-up I read stating that Rahm Emanuel was trying to shame the teachers by pointing out the bad situation left for the students, so maybe not.

Belligerent politics or not, I'd say the teachers have the most support of the people, which will determine the outcome more than anything else.

From what I'm reading about this, I'm seeing nothing but people interviewed that are on the side of the union, and I'm left thinking, "What does the opposition think?"
I mean really, if all we are getting is one side of the story, can we really say that the majority of people support it?


Anyways, I much prefer this article for information regarding the situation myself:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/10/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-chicago-teachers-strike-in-one-post/

It seems like the teachers are already paid fairly well:
"$47,268 for teachers with bachelor’s degree with a year’s experience or less, to $88,680 for those with doctorates who have at least 16 years of experience. Those in schools with longer school years (42.6 weeks or 52 compared to 38.6) make commensurately more. All told, teachers in Chicago make an average of $74,839 a year."
The city is obviously striped for cash:
"This fiscal year, Chicago public schools are facing a $665 million deficit..."
The schools themselves are preforming poorly when compared to others:
"Chicago performs quite poorly on national assessments of educational quality. As Reuters notes, fourth-graders in Chicago performed an average of nine points worse than the big city average and sixteen points worse than the national average on the math section of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the national gold standard for measuring learning. On reading, they were eight and seventeen points worse than big city and national averages, respectively. That’s a bit better than Los Angeles or Washington, D.C. but worse than New York."

I mean, common, the city is out of money, why the hell are you asking for a raise and the returning of teachers, and lower standards for test scores?

For some additional sources:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/06/12/how-much-do-chicago-public-school-teachers-make/
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/10/chicago-teachers-go-on-strike-5-things-theyre-fighting-for/

Kind of a dual-edged sword though, I mean there's either the option of raising wages digging deeper into deficit or run the risk of generating even lower test scores.