When you see this headline, you just know the mayor from the Chicago Teachers Union, richly rewarded his former employer for funding his campaign:

Chicago already has some of the worst test scores in the country at a cost of over $30,000 per student. And that’s about to go way up.

We have no problem paying more for great teachers, but these pay raises to more than $120,000 a year are not based on merit or performance. You can’t fire bad teachers in Chicago. You have to pay them a six figure salary. What a way to run a school system.