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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I don’t know none of it makes sense to me, counties bordering cook county the homestead exemption goes from 6,000 to 8,000 and the senior exemption from 5,000 to 8,000 for collar counties. The counties that would qualify and benefit from these updated exemptions would be only Dupage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties they border cook county and are the collar counties. Anyone have any input what about all the other counties in Illinois, sounds like campaign swindling on Pritzker’s part to fool people.
Not sure what this exactly means but Cook county seems to benefit the most considering the county has over 3M population. What will the exemption be for Boone and Winnebago county? In Ptell counties if the exemption increases or an abatement is given that means the property tax RATE increases to compensate the lower overall EAV. A long while back when the senior exemption increased by $1K Winnebago county lost $24M in EAV since 24K seniors benefited from the reduction but the tax rate went up. This will probably be advertised en masse to the voters before the election and… Read more »