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The union wants retro-fitted buildings, solar panels, electric school buses and carbon-neutral programs, in addition to major increases in pay and staffing levels. CTU President Stacy Davis Gates said it was students who pushed the union to bargain about things not immediately connected to reading, writing and arithmetic.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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Heating and powering schools that are chronically under-enrolled is bad for the environment, yet CTU supports a ban on school closures.
https://wirepoints.org/more-failure-at-chicago-public-schools-about-one-third-of-traditional-schools-are-half-empty-or-worse-wirepoints/
Simple message to CTU: stay in your own lane.
And, by the way … find new leadership. Gates is off the rails.
Fire them all and start over. They are dumber than the children they attempt to educate.
Nope. Their pay will be going up.
The students pushed the union into making insane demands! Conservatives don’t want black kids to read! Are teachers listening to this? Is this really how you want to be represented?
I was a union member many years ago, when I was younger and starting a family. Due to my union membership I received many mailers from dick Durbin asking for support for this bill or that one. I realized very quickly that democrats want all the things I was against and started voting with that in mind.