{"id":701266,"date":"2010-03-25T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01310fde3490970c"},"modified":"2010-03-25T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:24:09","slug":"chicago-teachers-could-live-outside-city-limits-under-new-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/701266","title":{"rendered":"Chicago teachers could live outside city limits under new legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Michelle Manchir<\/em> at 3:25 p.m.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>SPRINGFIELD &#8212; Teachers at Chicago schools would be able to live outside the city limits under a measure the Illinois Senate approved today.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Sponsoring Sen. Heather Steans, D-Chicago, said the legislation would expand the hiring pool, perhaps bringing in more quality instructors. Current rules require Chicago Public Schools teachers to live in the city.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The quality of the teacher first and foremost really indicates how well that child is going to do,&quot; Steans said. &quot;I think making sure that we can draw on the broadest employment pool for teachers in the city is good educational policy.&quot;<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The measure passed 40-7, with nine voting present.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>One dissenting senator, Sen. Kwame Raoul, D-Chicago, said teachers are more sensitive to a district&#8217;s needs if they live within its borders.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&quot;It should be more than a job, it should be an investment in the communities and in the children that come from the communities,&quot; he said. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The education measure now goes to the House for consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Michelle Manchir at 3:25 p.m.SPRINGFIELD &#8212; Teachers at Chicago schools would be able to live outside the city limits under a measure the Illinois Senate approved today.Sponsoring Sen. Heather Steans, D-Chicago, said the legislation would expand the hiring pool, perhaps bringing in more quality instructors. Current rules require Chicago Public Schools teachers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WqK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}