Reply #20: He's right. A less than six-hour school day? It is shameful. And the union rejected a longer day

[msanthrope]

in negotiations....

"The Chicago Teachers Union says that’s a bribe. Jesse Sharkey, vice-president of the union, says CPS didn’t like the answer it got when the union rejected a longer day for every elementary school. So it’s trying to negotiate individually with 482 elementary schools.

SHARKEY: You know with principals running around to individual schools saying, ‘There’s $150,000 on the line if you vote for this!’ I don’t know how else to characterize that. It’s pressure. It is a bribe. It’s irregular. The votes have been pushed through quickly without enough consideration on the part of the people who are going to be doing the work, and it’s a terrible way to run school policy."
http://m.wbez.org/story/cash-incentives-will-continue-schools-moving-longer-day-91583