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 pot could be made right by re-directing the Federal and State funding incentives toward those absorbing the enormous environmental/economic risk of the endeavor: foremost, Manteno property owner/taxpayers, then concentric circles of smaller risk outward from there (surrounding locations, Illinois taxpayers).
The problem with all these take-money-from-the-many-and-give-it-to-me-and-my-chums political schemes is: the pot isn’t right when profits are built upon the losses of the politicians’ victims.
The pot can be made right by distributing equitable portions of the presumed profits to those bearing the proximate risks.