Parents walk their children to Alexander Graham Bell Elementary School in Chicago on Wednesday. Students returned to school less than a day after teachers ended a seven-day strike.
?Michael Tercha/Chicago Tribune/MCT
Chicago teachers voted this week to suspend a 7-day-old strike, sending some 350,000 students back to the classroom and paving the way for the teaching force to vote on a tentative contract.
But for many in the Windy City, the contract has raised another potentially tall hurdle: how the cash-strapped district will manage to pay for it.
District officials estimate the agreement forged with the Chicago Teachers Union will cost $295 million over four years?cheaper than the two previous city teachers? contracts, but nevertheless costly in a school district that estimates it will carry a $1 billion...
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