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"If you want a textbook example of teachers union corruption, look no further than the gold standard for scandal and failure: the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU)."
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Well knock me over with a wet noodle. They are all Republicans in the photo wearing red.
Bankruptcy and dissolve all contracts and start over
They are currently working without a contract. It expired in June of 2024. You keep repeating the same plan of dissolving a contract that doesn’t exist. Absolutely brilliant.
Teachers unions are the most cancerous of the poison that is Public Sector Unions. They are unconstitutional. Bust all of these parasitic scum. Read “Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions” by Phillip K Howard.
The CTU is accomplishing what they set out to do. Get their members more money and increase their dues so they can contribute more to the politicians who determine their pay.
I see lots of delusional libtards that actually believe they are accomplishing something as they churn out stupid kids year after year.
Guess what? The beauty of our democracy so far at least is that we don’t need to feel obligated by our government to forever hawk the popular beliefs of the moment even with same facts at our collective disposal. Consequently what you think as retarded mindsets are simply different belief systems, and such people are free to believe you are unrelentingly stupid as well. Get used to it. Long live our democracy!
Whatever pie in the sky, new age excuse teachers now implement as curriculum, the fact remains that students can’t read, write or do math to their grade level. No amount of DEI, unicorn tales and the enabling of victimization will change that fact.
Maybe we can agree that every young person needs to learn upfront and permanently that it’s basically the individual person’s responsibility to accept responsibility and do what’s necessary to lead a successful life. Blaming others for your lot in life might make you feel better, but it likely will get you nowhere towards meeting that goal. You are the captain of your life’s voyage!
Does your philosophy of individuals accepting responsibility and doing what’s necessary apply to teacher union members? Or are you telling us that kids need to accept responsibility but the adults running the schools do not?
You’re extending my thoughts to your own agenda. I was implying nothing you’ve suggested. Your putting your own spin on it. Count me out.
Of course I understood that you were only trying to refer to students, in no way are teachers to be assigned any responsibility for the results in the classroom.
James, it’s unrealistic and asking too much for most children to take on such responsibility. These children are extremely dependent on adults (parents, teachers, etc.) to teach and guide them properly so they can become upstanding members of society.
Those who demonstrate higher than usual attention to detail, strive to learn and achieve generally become winners in life. The rest won’t and tend to blame others for it. Parents need to attend to that message very early and persistently.
James – the problem is that the academic outcomes in Chicago are really miserable. It is very difficult to extol the virtues of democracy with a very uneducated population. I don’t think dismissing large swaths of students who are functionally illiterate as the product of a different belief system. It is not the way to describe utter failure. The opportunities these kids face is bleak, and no amount of babble over root causes will fix the problem. The problem is not mono-causal but the union must start being held accountable. The math will ultimately impose accountability but with lots of… Read more »
Every legislator, alderman and public official in Illinois should read this article–at least twice. It is shameful, embarrassing and really disgusting. What kind of a state have we sunk to at present?
Stacy Gates may send her son or daughter to private schools, but she is hardly alone when it comes to public school teachers. They know fully well how bad public schools are. The CPS is used by the CTU to get salaries, benefits, and huge pensions at young ages for adults. I would like the teachers to take the teacher test every five years, I think some would fail and some would cheat their way through it.