"That argument about financial responsibility has contributed to the answer of how this got so messy: It has turned the school system’s budget struggle into an ideological and political battleground — one pitting more conservative, business-oriented corners that have long opposed high spending and the CTU — against a progressive mayor who sees those groups as quick to adopt austerity austere measures, leaving poor families and schools vulnerable."
Johnson needs to keep his left policies and CTU affiliation out of CpS.
debtsor
1 year ago
How exactly are poor families left vulnerable if outrageous unsustainable spending returns to sustainable and practical levels? Wouldn’t CPS unsustainable and outrageous spending be MORE likely to make poor families more vulnerable? Sun-Times, you SUCK.
Whoever does down thumbs on this site must be a CTU or some other state union employee.
Bankruptcy is the only fix to this problem and let the judge dissolve this unions and reappropriate the pension system to reality. Unfortunately the state can’t do that (yet to be seen)
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.
Johnson needs to keep his left policies and CTU affiliation out of CpS.
How exactly are poor families left vulnerable if outrageous unsustainable spending returns to sustainable and practical levels? Wouldn’t CPS unsustainable and outrageous spending be MORE likely to make poor families more vulnerable? Sun-Times, you SUCK.
Whoever does down thumbs on this site must be a CTU or some other state union employee.
Bankruptcy is the only fix to this problem and let the judge dissolve this unions and reappropriate the pension system to reality. Unfortunately the state can’t do that (yet to be seen)