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.”
What a mess, and an example of city, McPiet agency and state leader incompetence. All they are doing here is making the bond holders wealthy, and soaking us taxpayers by never paying down the principal of the loan. Most don’t understand that “capitalizing” the interest means not paying the interest payment, and adding it to the principal. Plus everyone outside the city should be pleased that the state (that means people in the suburbs and downstate) guarantee these garbage bonds, and will likely have to step and make $300m to $450m in payments each year as Chicago implodes. Yeah Chicago,… Read more »