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.”
Pritzker was always going to lose this case but that’s not the point. Its all about his presidential campaign virtue signaling. National tyrant pravda media will eat it up and frame pritzker as a progressive messiah.
Several weeks ago the 9th Circuit just upheld the 10 round limit though. The 9th Circuit at the appellate level has the craziest judges in the entire US. The 9th circuit also said that it’s not illegal to camp out on public property unless the city has enough available shelter beds for homeless people to sleep. Because if there was nowhere to sleep, they were criminalizing homelessness. So now the west coast has homeless encampments everywhere and there are no way to clear them because the 9th circuit said you can’t criminalize being homeless. And these illegal homeless campsites are… Read more »