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.”
The pronoun I use now is Comrade. I feel that’s the only one any of us need now.
DEI = Didn’t Earn It
All this DEI investment and prioritization in public schools, and yet student academic performances and parent satisfaction remain at all-time lows. DEI policies have ZERO demonstrated positive impact upon actual educational learning of students themselves. “Empowering” POC students via DEI-related instruction has proven to have no impact on POC students’ academic achievement, nor have implemented DEI policies caused higher standardized test-achievement scores for POC students – the achievement gaps remain huge. New book on educational policies in American suburban public schools, “Disillusioned” by Benjamin Herold, unintentionally demonstrates evidence-based failure of DEI and Affirmative Action policies in our public schools. Identifying… Read more »
Imagine going to a job interview and being asked “Name at least two ways you’ve supported the America First and MAGA movement since President Trump was elected in 2016.”
The DIE nonsense is designed to punish conservatives and exclude them from libtard spaces.