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The union wants retro-fitted buildings, solar panels, electric school buses and carbon-neutral programs, in addition to major increases in pay and staffing levels. CTU President Stacy Davis Gates said it was students who pushed the union to bargain about things not immediately connected to reading, writing and arithmetic.
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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Heating and powering schools that are chronically under-enrolled is bad for the environment, yet CTU supports a ban on school closures.
https://wirepoints.org/more-failure-at-chicago-public-schools-about-one-third-of-traditional-schools-are-half-empty-or-worse-wirepoints/
Simple message to CTU: stay in your own lane.
And, by the way … find new leadership. Gates is off the rails.
Fire them all and start over. They are dumber than the children they attempt to educate.
Nope. Their pay will be going up.
The students pushed the union into making insane demands! Conservatives don’t want black kids to read! Are teachers listening to this? Is this really how you want to be represented?
I was a union member many years ago, when I was younger and starting a family. Due to my union membership I received many mailers from dick Durbin asking for support for this bill or that one. I realized very quickly that democrats want all the things I was against and started voting with that in mind.