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.”
Time (again) to tax the prudent and redistribute to the prodigal. Those who take risk gain reward BUT if the risk materializes shouldn’t the risk-takers shoulder the burden? Surely the risk-takers’ creditors and co-investors will join in taking a hit. Workers have SOME protection in bankruptcy. Woven throughout politicians’ sympathy for “victims” is the fact that politicians’ friends will harvest the benefits. One can look at the issues from the perspective of bailouts of GM and Chrysler or with Chicago and Illinois. We are governed by pragmatic self-servers, not by Mother Theresas. The invisible hand always seems to have a… Read more »
If covid lockdowns didn’t shut down your Small Business, the Communist Democrats have more tricks in their Bag to shut you down, inflation being the next one.
Time for economic depression in Illinois.
That’s the price you pay for living there.
Biden and the incompetent administration he’s assembled have messed the economy up so badly that they have no way to fix it before November. They don’t even know what to do. Joe, people don’t care about climate change when they can’t put a meal on the table to feed their family. The complicit mainstream media will do their best to confuse the average American, but it all comes down to whether people feel better or worse about their personal situation. There’s a red wave coming. It may not get to Illinois, but the country has seen enough of Bidenomics.
got news for you. what’s happening is intentional. they don’t want to fix jack.