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.”
Snort n chortle.let them play under a tent. Who in their right mind gives a fk what the bears do?
Where would Chicago find more money to give to Bears for a new enclosed stadium? Chicago hasn’t even paid for prior Soldiers Field renovation project.
Hmm, the Pontiac Silverdome was an indoor stadium. IMHO, the Lions played better in the old Tiger Stadium which was built when God was a boy. The cold toughened them up. They should have been renamed the Pussycats 45 years ago.
“They should have been renamed the Pussycats 45 years ago.”
Close, just remove 3 letters.
HJ,
WP is a family website with objective discourse. If the Detroit Lions took your suggestion to heart they’d have to remove 4 letters and add 2. This would rank right up there with the marketing geniuses that tanked Bud Lite. I don’t think the Ford family will ever be known for woke progressive thinking as eventually they’d all have to get a real job somewhere else.
Let them move, who cares
And after all this posturing over the years with Da Bears 1) Team is sold 2) Ends up in San Antonio. Think Stan Kroenke.
Five billion from a broke city, broke state, broke county and a socialist Mayor? Good luck with that idea. The real problem for the Bears is that staying at Soldier Field is the only real option, and everyone knowledgeable about the topic knows that. But the Bears keep trying to convince us that there are alternatives.
Do the Bears have some sort of rose-colored crystal ball about the future of Chicago?
Dream on. Not gonna happen.
This is being used as a means to put the screws to the Arlington Heights crowd — they see the Bears as a nuisance to be taxed up to the sky, rather than the only hope for putting a giant empty site back on the tax rolls