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.”
The “urban doom loop” should more precisely be called “historically Democratic party governed large cities.”
There I fixed it.
The cosmopolitans laughed dismissively as rural cities and towns were decimated by the very policies that they, the cosmopolitans, advocated and voted for. Now the liberals, who never thought it could happen to THEIR CITY, are looking to the very same reprobates to “do something”. The renaissance is going to be small towns and rural communities that are filling up with Conservative, self-sustaining Patriots. As the history of Rust-Belt cities has shown, there’s no written-in-stone rule that cities can’t fail…even Big City’s.
Big Cities are mostly failures outside of the prestigious downtown and yuppie neighborhoods, and have been so since the 70’s. The political leaders who like to say that the big cities are the GDP generators really fail to mention that many, if not most, of those individual employees generating that GDP are suburbanites. Just like cities are split between nice areas and bad areas, rural areas and small towns are a mixed bag too. Tourist areas and areas with industry tend to be nicer, but for every nice rural/small town, there’s another small town full of meth heads, tweakers, crank… Read more »
BJ’s tax grabs will drive away business and kill property tax revenue