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 not a perception, it’s reality. A few weeks ago there was a shootout in the Godfrey Hotel, a few days ago there was a fatal shooting in a Streeterville hotel. Chicago is deadly and tourists are wisely staying away.
Yet Northern WI is booming like never before. Mostly at the expense of Chicago.
https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/a-tourism-boom-has-wisconsins-northern-destinations-scrambling-to-keep-up/
My summer trip is up north and it was planned after cities removed all their corona restrictions.