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.”
This is pure gaslighting aka lying aka strawman arguments. No one denies that we have a lot here for business. No one. Businesses leave because the politicians are hell bent on destroying what good remains. They want out before its too late. Downtown Detroit is filled with empty occupied and blighted abandoned buildings. Someone or some business owned these trophy towers before they were abandoned to the ravages of time. That’s what is coming for Illinois. All of it. Except the farm land, Bill Gates will use it to grow and harvest insect based proteins …