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Chicago mayor wants $1 billion more for schools even though 43% of CPS teachers are chronically absent – Wirepoints Quickpoint
May 11, 2024
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson recently traveled to Springfield with a big wish list, including $1 billion in extra funding for Chicago Public Schools. Among the reasons his demand should be categorically rejected: the growing rate of CPS teachers simply not showing up to school.
Negligence or something more? Gov. Pritzker’s $827 million in taxpayer subsidies for Rivian. – Wirepoints
May 10, 2024
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently promised electric car maker Rivian $827 million in taxpayer subsidies when he shouldn’t have given the company a penny. The question is, was it negligence or something more?
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.
Gov. Pritzker’s ‘ethics reform’ eliminates competitive elections and choice for voters – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer
May 8, 2024
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Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about a new law passed by the Democratic supermajority and signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker that results in brazen election interference, keeping Republicans off ballots; about a referendum that tests the waters for a renewed progressive income tax hike; about how the Parental Notification referendum question was knocked off the ballot; and why laws like that pass so easily.
In terms of cps understaffing, per articale there are aprox 25,000 ctu members at cps providing teaching and sevices to 296,752 students (per st, with another 57,000 students are charter students), that works out to staffing ratio of 1 ctu staff for evey 11.87 students and thats understaffed?. Further, according to a certain education writer, of the 25,000 ctu staff 13,000 are class room teachers, or 1 ctu teacher for every 22.83 students which doesnt seem understaffed ratio to me? And with another 12,000 ctu staff are doing who know what. Not to mention the 7,000 seiu staff , 5000… Read more »
Plus, i thought ctu can’t strike over staffing levels?
“One decade ago, Chicago Public Schools had more than 407,000 students enrolled across more than 660 schools. As recently as the 2014-15 school year, the district’s enrollment still hovered around the 400,000 mark. That total has continued to drop precipitously since. New data released Friday shows that not only has CPS enrollment fallen 2.7 percent since last year – it’s also in danger of losing its title as third-largest school district in the country. CPS released its 20th-day enrollment data for fiscal year 2019 on Friday afternoon, which shows that districtwide enrollment dropped by just over 10,000 students since last… Read more »
Today is the 20th day of enrollment. It would behoove Lightfoot to compile these numbers quickly as they probably work in her favor.
When is the reporting date? Maybe that’s ctu plan, to strike before the new student enrollment # comes out showing once again a drop in students?