Pros
So many wonderful teachers, aides, and service specific educators work the halls here. There are a lot of people with passion, ideas, and technical classroom knowhow who represent the very best in education. I found the salary and benefits, including time off, to be more than fair. There is room and flexibility at many of the campuses to bring a pet project of yours to life for students and the school or to hop on to someone else's project. If you reach out laterally for help, you will almost always find support from within your building, and occasionally across buildings. This is a place to cut your teeth, and you will walk away from Center City with some excellent hard skills you will be able to apply anywhere. The students, for the most part, are a joy (provided you've set and maintained good expectations and routines).
Cons
Leadership at Center City tends to be weak, directionless, or Type A belligerent (the experience differs depending on the campus). Central Office too often makes sweeping changes that negatively impacts teachers, students, and directionality. Rather than reflecting on and actively listening to teacher and staff concerns, particularly with regards to poorly informed decisions made by leaders at schools or CO, it becomes a "circle the wagons" moment that ultimately results in leaders getting what they want while staff who challenge them feel marginalized, attacked, or under intense scrutiny because you had the temerity to raise legitimate concerns up the chain. Among leaders at CO and at schools, there's often a fealty of belief in making big changes without consulting those most affected nor deeply considering how to make new changes work in practice. If you aren't in leadership, expect to have your input solicited and then mostly ignored for anything other than the smallest of changes. Expect this to have a major impact on your work life and mental well being.