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While CPS has previously said teachers who refuse to return to work could be fired, the Tribune reports the union will provide legal support to teachers who are too afraid to go back to the classroom.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Schools in my area have been open since August, some restrictions but open. Teaching staff reporting for duty everyday. HS has over 2000 students. Guess what? I dont live in Chicago any more. Fled that hellhole 20 yrs ago. Still Illinois, but rural Illinois, different plan out here.
The teachers should stay at home, go on strike or do anything else necessary to avoid catching “Covid 19” and dying a horrible death on a ventilator–if they are lucky enough to even get access to one.
Do these alderman have no respect for the soon to be dead?
Fire them!