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.”
You can count on the ILLGOP- to ever make certain that they area permanent minority party with no real base.
It’s what they do best.
It’s what most minority parties do in highly partisan states. How’s the Indiana Democrat Party doing these days?
There is a plot point in a movie, a man is on a luxury cruise with 2 chess grandmasters. He bets them both that he can play each to at least a draw. They must set up boards on opposite ends of the ship and our man will walk back and forth between each game to make his move. The man simply mimics each move his 2 grandmaster opponents have made one against the other, so essentially 2 masters are playing each other (to a draw). This Illinois doxing law can work through the court system and become established case… Read more »