It shouldn’t have taken a PhD in economics to notice this – Wirepoints Quickpoint
May 17, 2024
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What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
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Chicago’s public schools are broken. It’s time to give parents school choice. – Op-Ed by Wirepoints’ Glennon and Dabrowski – Chicago Tribune*
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Twelve Illinois Congressmen vote against bill to give federal custody to non-citizen defendants charged or convicted with assaulting cops – Wirepoints Quickpoint
May 17, 2024
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The bill passed despite their votes in response to certain incidents where local prosecutors are thought to have been too lenient with non-citizens assaulting cops.
The Chicago Teachers Union Plays Hooky – Wirepoints in the Wall Street Journal*
May 17, 2024
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The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
Gov. Pritzker is using the threat of budget cuts to get more tax hikes passed – Wirepoints joins Tom Miller of WJPF Carbondale
May 17, 2024
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Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
Public education staffing has ballooned over the years…yet kids still can’t read – Wirepoints on with Jeff Daly of WZUS Decatur Radio
May 17, 2024
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Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss how politicians can never spend enough on education despite there being no accountability for that spending, the growth of education staffing across Illinois, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $1 billion demand for Chicago schools, why Gov. Pritzker is providing $830 million in taxpayer subsidies to struggling EV carmaker Rivian, and more.
CTU Total scum bags! Seeing some of them on TV i would not let them near my kids!!!!
None of my kids EVER darkened the doorway of a public school or college in Illinois. Best investment I made.
Government run schools, even surburban ones, are beyond repair. It is time for parents to take matters into their own hands. Organize pods. Pay a teacher to teach. Unbundle the school. Then, en masse don’t pay the portion of your property taxes that go to government run education.
Sorry, but taxes are not voluntary contributions, although if you coud get massive numbers—maybe in the multi-thousands at least—to comply that would be really interesting. Then, you surely realize that “schools” have to meet certain criteria to be legally recognized.
Government schools suck because public unions suck.
taxes are not voluntary but Illinois taxes are. If you move to another state, goodbye IL taxes.
Great piece M&T!! Another idea, since we’re paying for them, let the voters vote for public sect union leadership. I didn’t vote for sharkey & gates to speak for me or my kids. If you listed to wttw/npr you would think we did
Good job getting into the Trib. And a well written column. Discouraging, though, in a way. Chicago’s citizenry has about as much a chance of benefiting from a reconstituted school district as a snowball has of benefiting from being on a sidewalk during a hot August afternoon. Too many stakeholders would combine to deny such a solution – public employee unions; the public employee union’s bought-n-paid-for elected-n-appointed guvm’nt lackeys-n-lickspittles; a judiciary that is reliably unsympathetic to imposing reforms on Illinois’ pestilential bankruptcy of finances and governance; a voting-elgibile citizenry that has been gerrymandered or bewildered into irrelevancy or apathy. Reconstituting… Read more »
Parents can easily get school choice by moving to Indiana. Simple as that.
Or Iowa
Cant read the article because it stopped me, but I’m amazed that the Tribune isn’t censoring Wirepoints.
Here’s an unblocked link. https://briefly.co/anchor/Chicago/story/op-ed-chicagos-public-schools-are-broken-its-time-to-give-parents-school-choice?hl=1