Chicago school credit rating cut after strike—Moody's

September 27, 2012

Reuters

Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the credit rating for the Chicago Board of Education September 27, citing unbudgeted salary increases in the proposed teachers’ contract and an upcoming increase in pension payments as two reasons for the downgrade. The article cites a Civic Federation report that the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund was just under 60 percent funded in FY2011.