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Among the equity demands that could be the least agreeable for CPS are the CTU’s rejection of simultaneous teaching — in which teachers instruct students in classrooms and remotely at the same time — and a proposed reduction of remote learning screen time by one hour each day. SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Fire them. The students aren’t being taught anything anyway so if it took a year to hire new teachers nobody would be losing out.
Is anyone familiar with Teachers for Good Trouble? They want a walkout on Dec 15th. Something about standardized testing during a pandemic.
Fire them!
I support our hardworking, dedicated teachers and hope you do too. Rock on CTU!
Surprised you got all the down votes. I support our hardworking, dedicated teachers too, all six of them.
I don’t care about votes.
Parents that want their children to succeed will move to Indiana.
We relocated to FL for the winter and enrolled our cps kids in school here starting Jan 6th. FU CTU. We might just decide to stay forever!
Proof positive that it is not about the children.
Why does CTU insist on shortening the work day? Wasn’t the longer school day collectively bargained between Rahm and the union? I thought the longer school day – which merely got CPS to the same school day as everyone else – was part of the salary increase in that first contract under Rahm. Is CTU going to leave some salary on the table? Guessing not.
All those parents on the northside that put their kids through private schools, paid for tutors, paid for test prep to get their kids into the top three or four public schools (so as not to have to pay exorbitantly for high school on top of tax rape) only to discover their reward was to still be subjected to the whims of angry, thieving socialists.
You can not avoid their hell with hard work. You can be a hard working, honest Venezuelan but you’re still living in Venezuela.
CTU releases list of demands for releasing their hostages
This is what happens when your employer the Chicago school district does not evaluate workers on merit, but instead evaluates them as one collective group. They can’t fire a bad teacher, that can’t reward a good one, only seniority rules and the will of the collective union rules. The school district is the unions b1tc#.
Mass vaccination of all teachers in Illinois open schools now get back to work end of conversation and story.
Fire them ! Stand your ground
How “Illinois” – Guvmn’t comes up with a poor plan “target rich” with unknowns and vulnerabilities, to which a public employee union responds with a more expensive worse one.
There is something horribly wrong in a system when the workers tell the employer when they will work, how they will work, and how much they will be paid.
They also tell their employer they are too exhausted to work past their mid to late fifties and require a lavish pension.