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.”
When dumps like Kankakee and Carbondale are up double digits it likely means that outside investors have been priced out of larger market. Downstate markets are scraping the bottom of the barrel as rentiers and vultures looks for untapped and underinflated real estate markets. We are witnessing, in real time, inflation rear its ugly head into every corner of the economy, including the single family home market in small towns where the only way to collect rent is to show up at the tenants door on the first of the month and demand it in cash.