A Tribune investigation of the city’s response in the past year revealed a costly and at times disorganized approach, often characterized by poor planning, lack of leadership and troubling conditions in shelters. 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.”
Follow the money. Trib and Wirepoints should identify and investigate the company-owners, and their political contacts, of these high-cost furtively-awarded “migrant aid” contracts.
It wouldn’t matter one bit if Mayor Johnson’s extended family got 95% of the contracts. No one would care. Democrats can do no wrong in the eyes of their voters. They’ll overlook the most blatant corruption, cronyism, graft and outright theft, as long as it is Democrats doing it. Because they associate Republicans with bad, bad things. In fact, many of Mayor Johnson’s voters view cronyism as how things get done. Gettin’ while the gettin’ is good. Sean Thompson screams about the government mafia all the time and he’s not wrong. The rest of us ask for corruption free good… Read more »
That’s the Chicago way.
Typical Democratic crisis. Relate a problem, them demand funds to fix problem of your own making; aka an opportunity to steal!
Jeez…..let’s fix this headline.
“A year in, Chicago’s ‘We’re an illegal alien sanctuary city’ crisis exacerbated by the actual arrival of illegal aliens, and blah, blah, blah….”
Who audits Chicago public spending?
Other cities are found to not be in compliance with HUD policies.
But if a tree is chopped down in a forest and sold for personal profit by corrupt political insiders, does it make a sound?
https://www.openthebooks.com/fox17-housing-the-homeless-in-nashville/
The migrant crisis is exacerbated by migrants. Get rid of them and you don’t have a crisis.
Government always figures out a way to profit off a “Crisis”.
Very little money will ever work it way to help the people that need it.