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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The “urban doom loop” should more precisely be called “historically Democratic party governed large cities.”
There I fixed it.
The cosmopolitans laughed dismissively as rural cities and towns were decimated by the very policies that they, the cosmopolitans, advocated and voted for. Now the liberals, who never thought it could happen to THEIR CITY, are looking to the very same reprobates to “do something”. The renaissance is going to be small towns and rural communities that are filling up with Conservative, self-sustaining Patriots. As the history of Rust-Belt cities has shown, there’s no written-in-stone rule that cities can’t fail…even Big City’s.
Big Cities are mostly failures outside of the prestigious downtown and yuppie neighborhoods, and have been so since the 70’s. The political leaders who like to say that the big cities are the GDP generators really fail to mention that many, if not most, of those individual employees generating that GDP are suburbanites. Just like cities are split between nice areas and bad areas, rural areas and small towns are a mixed bag too. Tourist areas and areas with industry tend to be nicer, but for every nice rural/small town, there’s another small town full of meth heads, tweakers, crank… Read more »
BJ’s tax grabs will drive away business and kill property tax revenue