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.”
There is big money (for whistleblowers) in qui tam lawsuits.
Lawsuits enable discovery (if one can find a judge willing to enforce the law).
Simply find a guilty participant in schemes to defraud IDES. Dangling big money (percentage of recovery) can buy lots of cooperation.
(Illinois is said to be a judicial hellhole, so Federal case is needed. Also, Fed is ‘holding States harmless’ so that technicality–maybe hastily enacted on purpose– can be raised by States as self-defense against being forced to comply with discovery demands).
It is the lack of transparency around critical issues such as this one that results in the erosion of trust citizens have in their government leaders. The scope of the fraud perpetrated on Illinois residents is so great people want to know was it malfeasance or gross negligence. Well JB, we’re waiting. Will you ever answer the question?