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.”
Is that why Biden opened the borders? To supplement states that are losing population?
Or, most likely, to ruin the country.
The other day on a cable news channel, the administration’s chief economist (IIRC) said inflation can be tampered by reducing labor supply pressures. How does the administration reduce labor supply pressures aka rising wages for the middle class? By lowering wages. How to lower wages? He didn’t say, but opening the border with Title 42 seems to be what they are thinking. They want to flood the country with millions of immigrants looking to work to reduce inflation before the election. This administration is so insidious. They can’t stop printing money. They’d rather keep the working man’s wages down by… Read more »
To be fair the last 3 pre-Trump did the same thing, the difference now is it’s so egregious and obvious they are looting the treasury for China’s benefit that they installed a brain dead eggplant in the office to be the face of the scheme. Who knows who is really pulling the strings but we all know they aren’t working for the American people.