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.”
And his old lady was a Justice on the Illinois Supreme Court?!
After a lifetime of wearing finely tailored expensive suits, Ed’s not gonna like the baggy prisoner clothes at the white collar recreation camp he’s going to be spending an extended vacation at. I highly recommend the excellent book “When Corruption Was King” by Robert Cooley. In the book Cooley is the Mob lawyer turned FBI mole, and is pulled out of his undercover role because the FBI thinks that the Mob is going to kill him. Cooley’s one regret? That he wasn’t able to nail Ed Burke, who he knew was dirty! Remember, this was in the late 1980’s. Cooley… Read more »
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Can’t open link.
Good to see Chicago getting smeared in this. Never liked him.