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The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is under investigation by the House Education and Workforce Committee for allegedly failing to show how it has spent union members’ money over the past five years, according to a letter obtained by Fox News Digital.
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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The CTU is criminal organization guilty of racketeering through fraud and possibly extortion.
A federal investigation is LONG overdue.
Dear CTU: Should you be teachers of children if you have no ethics or morals?
And Chicago Public Schools didn’t want teachers from Moody Bible College–were they afraid students might learn the difference between right and wrong?
There have been so many scandals over the years at Chicago Public Schools, Chicago City Colleges, and Chicago State University…. do not invest in Chicago by buying a home there and don’t trust their schools.
Let’s see if and how they list the 2 MILLION dollars they gave to Panic Attack ???
The thought of Gates, Raoul, Lucky and whomever else gets swept up in this long overdue housecleaning of IL in the klink is making me giddy! Please, Santa, please?
CTU is likely the most corrupt institution in the U.S. And that is saying a lot.
Seems like you got a down vote from a CTU lackey.
Fraud and deception are crimes no matter
what whistle is blowing. This all follows
plays from pinheads direction he takes
from his masters, the CTU.
Throw the book and whatever else you can find at her and the CTU.
“… the committee cited reports that Davis Gates and other CTU leaders allegedly dismissed audit requests from members as racially motivated “dog whistles.””
She wouldn’t be Stacy Davis-Gates if she didn’t play the race card to cover her CTU’s corruption.
Jail isn’t racist. It keeps those that are supposed to be there firmly in place for as long as allowed to regardless of race or religion.