Ted joined Shaun Thompson to talk about about the Chicago Teachers Union’s absurd new contract demands, why so many Chicago teachers are chronically absent, and Brandon Johnson’s failed first year as mayor.
What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
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 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.
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.
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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 »