Chicago Teachers Union contract demands are totally divorced from reality – Wirepoints
May 8, 2024
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Details emerging about Chicago Teachers Union’s upcoming contract show just how divorced its demands, both extreme and expensive, are from the reality at Chicago schools. It’s not just about massive salary increases, but also about money for migrant students, climate initiatives, abortions and gender-affirming care. About blocking parental notification. Count on CTU’s demands to veer further from reality until the public finally says no.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
Within the 2020 Fair Tax plan was a child tax credit of $100/child. It cost maybe $100 million, around the same as the Invest in Kids Act.
When the Fair Tax failed, the CTC was thrown out as well. Now that it’s possibly back at $300/child, someone should ask the governor why for the past few years he has denied tax relief to the poorest families in Illinois.
https://www.oakpark.com/2020/09/30/giving-tax-credit-where-credit-is-due/
One of my neighbors who lives in a pretty nice home bought a new car last year. Just last month a new furnace and air conditioner was installed paid for by a Government program to help “the poor.” They get LIHEAP for utility bill assistance, SNAP and WIC for food, go to the food pantry and, from what they say, Obamacare is practically free. Add this up to the assorted other giveaways, the Township gave out bicycles at Christmas this year, they live quite well. Their way of doing this was simple; the wife quit work lowering their income to… Read more »
A permanent child care tax credit is one of the items that will move a basic flat tax into the graduated tax rate structure that Pritzker so desires despite the fact that the voters voted against it.