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.”
Another fine distinction for Illinois. And where is the wider press coverage for this? Where is the Illinois Homebuilders Association? The Illinois Realtors? The Real Estate Section of the Chicago Bar Association? Crickets.
Illinois has plenty of reasonably priced land to build houses. The problem is that land is out in the country and the people that want to live in an area like that want nothing to do with this state’s liberal progressive politics. They’ll go to Iowa or Indiana.
Typical Crain’s blah. Let’s face it how could Illinois help when the reality is people, sans immigrants, are moving out of the State? Taxes are high, the costs of corruption are everywhere, there is a lack of jobs, the education system is failing the children. Even the University’s are facing declining enrollment. Keep preaching to your choir Crain’s but its not going to make any difference. Illinois is simply a dysfunctional State and, quite frankly, the majority of Illinois voters want it this way. Don’t expect interstate migration because people want no part in the mess that you helped create.
Why build a house in a dying area?
Soon they’ll be a stampede out of Illinois. Then they’re be a surplus of housing on the market. However, the other side of this coin will be a dearth of buyers.
I could write a dissertation on this topic but there is no shortage of homes. That’s a myth perpetuated by the REIC (real estate industrial complex) in their own self-interest. There are plenty of homes. It’s just that years of low interest rates and favorable tax treatment has distorted the market so incredibly that younger generations can’t afford to buy, middle aged folk are ‘stuck’ in their 2.5% mortgages, and investors, like vampire squids, outbid everybody else for the best properties. Investors purchased ONLY 25% of IL properties last year, and that was a down year, and IL is below… Read more »