Detroit Teacher Salaries Cut by 10 Percent

Detroit public school teachers will take a 10 percent wage cut and pay more for health care in what school system calls “extreme measures” needed to address a financial emergency, Reuters reports. “These wage concessions and health care cost-sharing plans are being implemented because we are in an extremely difficult financial period for Detroit Public Schools,” Roy Roberts, the schools’ emergency manager said in a statement.   Source: Reuters

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