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.”
Leftists just setting records of abject failure everywhere they go!
All very deliberate.
We will never see $2 gas again, ever.
Democrats will keep stealing elections.
Its over.
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$5 gas will be Biden’s legacy. It didn’t need to be this way, but he sold out to the progressives to get elected. He is clearly losing it, as every speech is a gaffe filled word salad. He is headed for a mid term beatdown that will paralyze the rest of his only term. By year four, if he’s still in office, you won’t see him at all.
$5 gas? LOL, it’s $5.59 headed to $6 or $7 in my ‘burb!
$5.09 in Rockford at some stations today (Memorial Day). $4.37 in Beloit.
The difference by going over the border amazes me – what we need printed on every gas receipt is how much of the price of gas is taxes and to which entities those taxes go. I know IL assesses a state sales tax of 6.5% – so as the base price of gas increases, so does the state revenue – over and above the basic Pritzker $0.38/gallon tax. Here’s a breakdown of a $5/gallon 10-gallon purchase in Chicago: Gas cost: $38.79 Chicago tax (7.6%) $2.94 IL taxes (16.6%) $6.43 Fed Tax: (4.7%) $1.84 Total taxes: (29%) $11.21 That’s IF you… Read more »