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.”
Interesting article, the writer tries to draw some relationship between press briefings and covid cases. I watched or listened to those daily. The briefing part was politicized, the Q&A was better in that it exposed the Lack of Leadership governor JB which resulted in a loss of life of 35K Illinois residents. See how many times the people in this article use words like I think, Could be, Its hard to know, etc. The executive director say’s, Could we make this wave less intense, and could we make it so that fewer things are disrupted? Absolutely. Are we doing it? No, we’re not,” she… Read more »
That’s wonderful Arbuckle! Nobody wants to talk about Covid when you’ve got the Khardasians to follow.