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.”
It’s all about Afscme (CTU, etc) making sure they secure the public health gigs away from private/non-profit providers before the fed Covid $ run out, after which Chicago/Illinois tax payers will have be on the hook to pay the bill: CDPH’s budget topped $1 billion in 2022, thanks to more than $775 million in federal grant money funneled to the agency to address the COVID-19 pandemic. But in 2023, as some of those grants expire, CDPH’s budget has begun to shrink. Arwady previously said that about 90% of CDPH’s budget is made up of federal grants, 75% of which are… Read more »
Also, Im sure Afscme, fop, etc will be going after signing up whoevers hired to respond to 911 mental health calls that CTU/BRANDON pushing for. And maybe even all the ‘anti-violence interrupters’ for all the amazing work they’re doing….the public sec union growth opportunities in the mental health racket are endless!!! With dopey taxpayers/voters signing off as usual