Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120911:10:45:00
We want to get to the cover of "fortune," but first i want to read from the "washington post." this is about the teacher strike. in chicago, 85% of the roughly 400,000 public school students are either african-american or latino. a similar percentage received free or reduce-priced meals, meaning these students live near or at the poverty line $27,214 for a family of three. the average public schoolteacher earned almost triple that amount, $76,000 a year according to the school district. in contract negotiations this year, chicago public schools offered an average total pay increase of 16% over...
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