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 media husiness has long been in major flux with big challenges posed by the internet, so there is that, but by having such a leftist slant they further undermine themselves. And why any news organization would permit reporters like Mihalopolous and the Tribune’s Pratt as two examples to use social media to promote leftist causes is puzzling. It taints the papers articles, not just their own. Seems like a crusading leftist media is getting some overdue pushback from the market.
I’d love to know what WBEZ subscriber/ audience #s are in Black & Latino communities that WBEZ claims to champion thru endless EQUITY stories!!….I’m sure the #s are next to ZERO…..EQUITY!!!!
I feel very sorry for anybody who gets laid off, especially in a sector with few job openings, like this. However, as the wokest major news organization in the state, WBEZ’s problems are largely self-inflicted.
Did they apply DEI/equity standards to layoffs….i.e. get rid of any old straight white guys first? (Or maybe they didn’t have any left in first place?)…EQUITY!!!
THEY CAN LEARN TO CODE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learn_to_Code
Or work in a solar panel factory, Biden’s people said earlier. (And, please, easy on the all caps.)
Burn it to the ground, close the studios and sink that part of Navy Pier into Lake Michigan…