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Gate: "We are situating schools as anchors in their neighborhoods where they celebrate and reflect their specific cultures. The president is attacking those communities. We see them as instrumental in raising and educating our children.... We are situating schools as anchors in their neighborhoods where they celebrate and reflect their specific cultures.... in our city, we are honoring public education as the legacy of what formerly enslaved Africans dreamed for us during the Reconstruction era when they created it in the South."
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Tuesday morning… 1,805 days since an audit of CTU… School has started and there is still a 3/4 billion dollar budget shortfall… 323,251 students in CPS… (inclusive of charter, etc.). Why are the parents not holding pitchforks outside of CPS and the Mayor’s house? BJ, you’re an utter failure and a tool… of CTU. JB, the gem in your portfolio, Chicago, is being managed into the ground. That you sit in your mansion in Springfield or go on “Presidential” tours, while the children of Chicago, our future as many say, are so mistreated says more than your tax dodge of… Read more »
“1,805 days since an audit of CTU… School has started and there is still a 3/4 billion dollar budget shortfall…” What does a CTU audit have to do with a CPS budget shortfall? Those are two separate things. CTU is a private labor union and the general public doesn’t have a right to their audit. The CTU members should hold them accountable and demand timely audits but it’s no one else’s business other than the members. Also, why would parents hold pitchforks at the mayors house? Many of those parents want more spending and more services. Do you actually think… Read more »
I just puked in my mouth. Did she go to the same class of basic rhetoric as mayor banjo ?
No Stacy, you have one job at which you have demonstrated only failure; educating children.
We’ve been told that’s not their job. They fulfill contract requirements by showing up. If kids aren’t getting educated, it’s the fault of the school board, the voters, the parents and the students themselves.
And they are not failing. Poor scores don’t mean they are failing, because 97% of teachers are rated proficient by their employer. That would be other teachers who moved into admin jobs, like Stacy Davis Gates and Brandon Johnson.
Should prison workers be equally denigrated for failing to rehabilitate the majority of the prisoners in their charge? That’s basically your argument. Ever hear of the Dunning-Kruger Effect? If not, you and most people in general suffer periodic delusions when addressing particular problems beyond their “pay grade.”. The problems seem easily solved superficially but are far from it in reality. That’s politics and all its subsets to include education in a nutshell. It’s much like the arcade amusement whack-a-mole.
Are you comparing kids in school to criminals in prison? That seems like a good analogy?
For years, education was touted as the key to overcoming poverty. And for years, that was true. It’s why we as a society agreed to invest more in schools. The schools were the key to a better society.
Now, after we have given more and more money to schools, we are told that society needs to produce better students for the schools to educate. How do you propose we do that?
Personally I think the whole idea of getting anyone to become “educated” requires minimally two things from that person, an obvious psychological commitment to the cause and “skin in the game” in the way of personal, obvious sacrifice(s) to motivate a positive performances. Neither of those are a requirement for a public education in the United States, and the results logically follow. Consequentially most tick off the days in boredom awaiting release as would most prisoners. On the administrative side, the bureaucratic arrangement of what’s done and how it’s done is no better in terms of rewarding true academic excellence… Read more »
Start with making sure they can read by 3rd grade. No further teaching can be done if they can’t read. Only bad things can result from passing through students who can’t read. No more excuses.
Truer words have never been spoken.
Articles like this remind me of going to parochial school in the sixties and having nuns for teachers.
The CPS/CTU symbiosis is far from God.
Stacy though isn’t a complete fool as she sends her kids to private schools with extra cash she gets from the public trough.
Again with the new buzzword of the aggrieved “ reconstruction “. Along with “ collaborative “ , “ sustainable “, “ community “ etc. These Marxists are eloquent enough, until being opposed and then their real, everyday, genuine verbiage comes out.
And of course: Investment.
Wait a minute! Let’s look back a few decades to the 60’s and 70’s when the only way to insure a good education for all was to bus students out of neighborhoods where the schools were horrible and into middle class neighborhood schools that functioned well. The specific “celebrated culture” at the time was middle class values. The middle class value holders left town And schools failed. Now, CTU is touting the “neighborhood school” with more money needed of course! A complete reversal of the policy they guaranteed would succeed back to a known failure.
Articles describing comments from these people like this, fully illustrate that the kids mean nothing and they are not even focused on the real problem. Grifters. These are actors working the audience for money. To have a discussion about “sustainable” schools at a time when they are upside down in their budget/funding by $1B is Pathetic. Close it. Start over. The amount of money these people are paid to do such a crappy job is pathetic.
I did not know Chicago had an educational system. I thought it was a day care center that just passed the students through the system and did not care if they learn basic skills.
The CTU is doing the work that the white supremacist and the KKK probably never even thought about doing.
Please change the name you use.
Stacy Davis Gates is a high school history teacher, public school parent and the President of CTU Local 1.
Isn’t she also a private school parent?
They dreamed of future generations not learning basic math and reading skills? I don’t think so.
To summarize, Gates is using the schools as instruments of political propaganda promoting tribalism, division and racial strife.
They’ve been doing that for decades before Gates. She’s just more blatant about it.
Seems like Trump is a big CTU asset at this point? Or at least the latest shinny new threat, distraction, to dangle in front of the very-very few dopey voter/taxpayers paying attention. Somehow your supposed to believe CTU/Stacy/Brandon & crew are different than pay-to-play machine ghouls like Martwick–THEY”RE ALL THE SAME. All while CTU cleans up with –ZERO cuts, GIGANTIC contract, ZERO cuts from all the now spent ARPA-COVID funds, looks like TIER II is on its way to being overturned. etc, etc. despite all the astronomical debt. Ditto for rest of 100% dem machine controlled from city hall to… Read more »
We will post the Trib-Gates editorial by tomorrow. We had her other one up today so we thought we should spread them.