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.”
Whoever decided Joe was the man was brilliant! How can you hold an idiot responsible for anything! Particularly if you voted for the idiot!
So, there is not enough electricity to keep people cool in the heat…
Here’s an idea…
Lets double the demand for electricity by pushing electric cars on everyone…
Brilliant…
I’ve come to the conclusion Illinois is the testing ground for the left.
LOL, wrong conclusion. The progressives aren’t testing anything. They’re merely implementing their insane ideology here first because they can progressives run Springfield. A few years back, the progressives won many Democrat primaries throughout the state. Winning the primary in a D district means an automatic election win. The Black caucus is extremely progressive too. Any D not considered progressive enough is immediately primaried by a progressive further to the left. For example, in 2019, an extremely left wing progressive Jewish Rabbi (Rep. Yehiel Kalish) voted present on the Abortion Bill. The progressives were unhappy with that vote and primaried him.… Read more »
The party system has to be abolished . No majority or minority, only individuals.
A real solution to energy won’t be reached from the political side until the actual players, ie. the engineers, are engaged.
Right now, you have all the other majors from campus clutching their pearls and crying in anguish about climate change.
And look where they’ve gotten us.