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.”
Work is so 2020, man.
Ah, the revenue drop, PPF was touting the fantastic, healthy revenue numbers as recently as three weeks ago. And then I pointed out that California, who is Illinois’ older progressive Wine Aunt, itself just had a massive revenue drop, and that we were next. And here we are…
The Illinois unemployment rate has consistently been one of the worst in the country during Governor Carnival Barker’s reign of terror. Yet our great local journalists never ask him about it. It’s weird that such poor performance in a fundamentally critical metric never gets questioned. Where are you Maryann Ahern?
HE PAYS WELL