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.”
Watch out for the push for a city income tax in the spring session of the Illinois legislature. The mayor is already maneuvering on it. The city has an annual shortfall in the roughly billion dollar range, and that’s not providing anything for the illegal alien expenses, or any meaningful contribution to the pension hole. There is no other revenue source that can provide the huge jump in revenues required by all these leftie proposals. Property tax, financial transactions tax, jump in sales tax– nothing comes close to generating enough.
Well BJ, they tried this in Detroit and biz picked up and left!
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