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.”
Can the gas stations affix their own stickers at the pumps such as the one with joe biden pointing his finger at the $5.00 a gallon price and saying “I did that”?
$5.00 gas? My gas station in suburban Chicago was at $5.09 this morning. I feel like we’re in the Weimar Republic after WW I. Get paid and shop in the morning before prices went up in the afternoon. One day I paid .30 more per gallon by deciding to gas up after I returned from the dentist instead of before. As they say, he who hesitates is lost….also poorer.
The state cannot compel speech…
This should be a slam dunk…
BUT…
We are in IL after all…
Pritzker is such an idiot for forcing this issue. People are going to see right through it.
But, will the courts…?