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.”
Why are ICE vehicle drivers in IL paying these huge gas taxes and EV drivers get a pass to be similarly gouged? Maybe it’s a negative incentive to force more people to buy expensive EVs, so IL can declare itself the EV leader of the country. That would be yet another reason to scoot.
And how much higher since Joe grandstanded his first day in office with his sweeping executive orders? There’s a stat for you.
They had to wheel out the old “unscheduled maintenance at the BP refinery” excuse to prop prices up. It’s an oldie but a goodie. In another two months it will be the “summer blend” excuse. Of course if prices drop after that they can use the “geopolitical unrest” excuse. These greedy bums will do anything to keep oil high.
Time for the Joe Biden “I DID THAT” stickers to reappear.
When posted on a gas pump, those things disappear quicker than pancakes on a cold winter morning.