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Matt Paprocki, of the Illinois Policy Institute: "The primary aim of the Chicago Teachers Union is no longer the teaching of children, but rather political power for the union’s leaders and their ideas. Since a leftist group called the Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators, or CORE, took over CTU in 2010, both student proficiency and enrollment have dropped. The more power the group has secured, the harsher the impacts on students."
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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Marxists destroy everything that they touch.
CTU and the CPS DO NOT CARE ABOUT EDUCATION.
It is all about jobs for adults, paychecks, benefits, and pensions.
Education does not make the list.
No one wants to perform labor. They all want to organize labor.
A union teacher is the biggest threat a child faces
Teachers Unions across the nation are changing from unions to political organizations to terrorist groups. CTU and their “Red For Ed” street thugs is simply on the vanguard of this transition and terrorism. The massive entitlement of Teachers Unions is limitless.