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.”
The Black wards tend to elect old school machine Democrat politicians; but the hispanic wards these days are hiring straight up socialists through the DSA. Which is worse?
Mitigate, the latest and coolest buzz word, fits every situation or gathering. Mitigate is French for play with the numbers until the come out Right!
For the most part Hispanics don’t abort their babies, blacks for the most part do abort their babies. Hispanic families are strong, more fathers are present, where they are not present there is always a grandfather. If the Black Caucus chooses to use race as the basis for everything. They cant pick and choose what facts to ignore when it comes to race demographics.
The abortion rate is slightly better: The CDC data also reveals that the Black abortion rate (abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years) exceeded all other races: Black abortion rate: 25.1 Hispanic abortion rate: 11.7 White abortion rate: 6.6 This means that the Black abortion rate was 3.8 times higher than the white abortion rate (25.1 v. 6.6) and 2.15 times higher than the Hispanic abortion rate (25.1 v. 11.7). But hispanics have illegal immigration, and a lot of it, too. The city keeps these numbers private for ‘privacy’ but the best information anyone can find out about the number of undocumented students in CPS… Read more »
Sorry, but this would come at the expense of Hispanic wards.