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.”
Their headline should read “the Chicago we want you to know”.
Yes by all means let the public hear and see all of the stories. Bez, Trib, Von, Telemundo Let all show the truth. Michigan Ave. empty, State Street empty, Mutiple storefronts empty, citizens robbed in their neighborhoods, shootings everyday and Worse on weekends. Warming weather and The lead flyes faster, illegal migration using Up all our resources, disease increasing daily, Politicians lying to our face. It never ends but at some point people will Have had enough and they will fight back. Springfield and Washington may not like it But the cities will become sane again but it Will require… Read more »
Hey Tribune!!! Why did you remove all of the comment sections from your site??? Don’t you wan’t to make sure everybody’s story is heard? LOL
Hell no. Let this be an opportunity to show Illinois as what it is: a showcase of progressive policy failure.