Almost one-third of Chicago’s well-paid public-school teachers keep their kids out of the Chicago Public School System (CPS), a study finds.
Even the current leader of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Stacy Davis Gates, sends her son to a private school, according to the Chicago-based Illinois Policy Institute.
According to federal data reviewed by the think tank, about 31 percent of Chicago’s public-school teachers send their kids to a private school to keep them out of the CPS.
The data was culled from the 2018-2022 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample, compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Policy Institute noted.
Meanwhile, Gates also led the Chicago Teachers Union in a successful campaign to destroy a state voucher plan that allowed 15,000 low-income students to have some semblance of the same opportunity her son has thanks to her $289,000 annual salary.
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