Mayor Rahm "Kick the Can Down the Road" Emanuel - Rahm Emanuel's deal with CTU CHICAGO TEACHERS' UNION would cost about $8.9 billion over 4 years

The cost of the proposed teachers’ contract with the city’s public school system amounts to about $8.9 billion over four years — a deal that would cost taxpayers at least $100 million more than the one teachers rejected in January, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

“I would say this deal has about $100 million more in it,” said Robert Bloch, a longtime attorney for the Chicago Teachers Union who was at the bargaining table late Monday when a strike was averted minutes before a midnight deadline.

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