It shouldn’t have taken a PhD in economics to notice this – Wirepoints Quickpoint
May 17, 2024
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What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
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In previous years, enrollment declines have been concentrated in Black South and West side neighborhoods. But this year, schools serving all demographic groups saw declines. The reasons are many, experts say, including demographic changes in the city as well as the pandemic and the upheaval it caused, which may have motivated some parents to pull their children from the school district.
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The Chicago Teachers Union Plays Hooky – Wirepoints in the Wall Street Journal*
May 17, 2024
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The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
Gov. Pritzker is using the threat of budget cuts to get more tax hikes passed – Wirepoints joins Tom Miller of WJPF Carbondale
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Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
Public education staffing has ballooned over the years…yet kids still can’t read – Wirepoints on with Jeff Daly of WZUS Decatur Radio
May 17, 2024
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Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss how politicians can never spend enough on education despite there being no accountability for that spending, the growth of education staffing across Illinois, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $1 billion demand for Chicago schools, why Gov. Pritzker is providing $830 million in taxpayer subsidies to struggling EV carmaker Rivian, and more.
Wow, I am shocked to read this! The CPS and CTU are true educational leaders! LOL
I like how the writer waits until paragraph 4 to write “some parents are turned off by the divisive back and forth between CPS and CTU”. No, this is 100% on the communist CTU who have decided to destroy the school system. It’s intentional. They want families out so they can rule with complete impunity over an empire of trapped students who have no other option. WBEZ is pro socialist so it’s expected they’d write this garbage.
Sending your kids to CPS is child abuse.
Simple as that.
There needs to be a 10% RIF of CPS.
WBEZ.
Chicago Public Schools Enrollment Nosedives Again.
By Sarah Karp, Adriana Cardona-Maguigad.
September 27, 2021.
“Total enrollment is expected to be less than 330,000, according to WBEZ’s estimate of enrollment data from late last week.
Last year’s total was 341,000 — down 14,500 from the year before the pandemic began.”
“Chicago has 200,000 fewer children than 20 years ago.
Since 2010, the city has lost about 76,000 children under 18, according to recently released 2020 U.S. Census data.”
http://www.wbez.org/stories/cps-enrollment-nosedives-again/4f1293b1-f190-486f-ac47-dbaaaa8d88c1
Here is the City of Chicago population counts over the same period.
2000: 2,896,016.
2010: 2,695,598.
2020: 2,746,388.
Teacher unions for open borders.
Congrats cps/ ctu, this latest student enrollment nose dive pushes crazy per student spending to over $28,000 per student!!! (dosent include all the additional $millions state dumps in)
So where is the corresponding decline in the number of CTU scum teachers? Looks like it’s time to send some of the CTU parasites packing. Tough for them; since very few will ever be rehired by any real school districts or will be willing to work a real workday for a real day of pay.
I must be over the target. The flak is getting thick. Lots of CTU vermin down voting anything that exposes the truth.
Maybe that is a positive sign that there are enough inner city parents who are smart enough to know their kids are getting deficient educations so they move to better school districts. But the other side of that coin is that those parents who are not so perceptive stick around. So who is left in the City?
Only the people that want to stay. There’s a HUGE difference (for the better) between parents who move to the suburbs for their kids education and those that stay in the city for schooling. Like night and day. The suburban kids go to college, get regular jobs, generally stay out of trouble..but the inner city kids are the ones skipping school, can’t read, treat their neighborhood like GTA. The parents who choose to stay do so for the drugs, the lifestyle, the gang connections, the section 8 apartments, the friends, the community. The inner city is like a small town… Read more »
For the lower income neighborhoods yes but the north and northwest sides especially have some decent schools with dedicated parents trying against all odds to keep them above par in spite of the insanity from CTU. As one principal put it to me at a north side school during the fake pandemic, “The teachers here are ready to teach, want to teach, it’s the support staff that’s causing all the problems here”. I believe him too. These northside families are paying as high or higher property taxes than some really nice suburbs and are fighting against all odds to keep… Read more »
Didn’t Alderman Beale just claim the drop in African American population was the “strategic” decision to send fewer census takers and other resources to African American neighborhoods? Someone show him CPS enrollment data. No conspiracy.
Systemic racism is the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems!
You are wrong! When systemic racism is the problem, the only solution is more public money to throw at it.
They say it’s down because everybody knows it’s down. We’re all expected to believe they actually know the true headcount.
So that means that per pupil expenditures will be approx $28,818 based on a $9.3B budget.
Guess the audience is not quite as “captive” as CTU thought.
Hirsch High School with 78 students? I cannot comprehend how the union thinks this is acceptable, as the CTU’s mantra is no school closings. The kids can’t receive competitive or helpful academic offerings with those numbers. Plus, sports and extracurricular activities have to be really limited. I recall in the early 70’s trekking down to Assembly Hall in Champaign/Urbana to watch Hirsch, then a school of 2500 with a great band and school spirit, win the IHSA basketball champion. Alums (like Ricky Green who played at Michigan and the NBA) simply have to be saddened. What a decline.
Hirsch can accommodate over 1,000 students. It’s criminal use of public resources to have this large of an under-enrollment in a city school.