Chicago Teachers Union contract demands are totally divorced from reality – Wirepoints
May 8, 2024
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Details emerging about Chicago Teachers Union’s upcoming contract show just how divorced its demands, both extreme and expensive, are from the reality at Chicago schools. It’s not just about massive salary increases, but also about money for migrant students, climate initiatives, abortions and gender-affirming care. About blocking parental notification. Count on CTU’s demands to veer further from reality until the public finally says no.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
This situation is confusing to the uninitiated because lots of this restricted/ conserved land is actually a tax scam for the well-to-do. Wealthy people in the United States are putting their homes and land in expensive suburbs under conservation easements under the ownership of so called “conservation trusts”. The easement promises to not change or develop the land and buildings in perpetuity. In return for this promise, the landowner takes the difference between the prior value of the property as a charitable contribution, against the reduced value of the property under the restrictive easement. Additionally, the lowered value of the… Read more »
This is one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard. I understand the root the word conservativism is conserve, but taking valuable crop land, used to grow food and feed people and livestock, to achieve some very high and completely arbitrary conservation figure on an absurd expedited timeline, is insane and will result in death and destruction. World leaders and economists are talking about famines and food shortages in the coming years from lack of fertilizer and the war in Ukraine, and these people want to take valuable and productive farm land out of use to satisfy their crazy ideology?… Read more »