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.”
Going back to the source cited in the article, Illinois is the most costly of the 15 states included in this report. Omitted states include some cold ones: the Dakotas, Vermont, Minnesota.
Illinois had at one time cheap electric rates thanks to its being located over large coal reserves and a large body of relatively clean coal power plants. Thanks to the greens and the Democrats the coal plants were shut down putting power pant workers and coal miners out of work. This is what is called success by the Illinois Democrats along with their green partners. Regarding the nuclear route all one has to do is look at the multi year problems with the Clinton County Power plant construction problems. Add things like this to the other problems listed in the… Read more »
Since Pritzker and the Democrats energy tax in IL, my power bill seems forever stuck above $200/ mo Before it would trend down to $140/ mo in the off season like Fall. Pritzker is killing the working class with his goofy thinking and totalitarian behavior.
a lot of Peoples Gas rate increases, in past, have been driven by pipe replacement program which has big political backing by Operating Engineers/ AFL-CIO. (https://capitolnewsillinois.com/NEWS/chicago-utility-pushes-back-against-state-oversight-asks-for-further-rate-increase) Ed Maher, a spokesperson for the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150, said the decision could affect up to 1,000 workers, including 200 members of his union. “It leaves an entire workforce without a way to feed their families for 12 months,” he said. Maher also said the ICC “overstepped any kind of precedent” and the paused work could create safety risks. “The commissioners are playing politics with peoples’ jobs, peoples’ heat and peoples’ safety,” Maher… Read more »
And they want to force you to switch to electric, LOL. They’re trying to freeze you to death, for Mother Gaia is a death cult, and the elites have decided that you will be sacrificed to appease the gods of climate change.
I had an air source heat pump when I lived in Chicago.
It didn’t cut it in cold Jan. and Feb.
In Chicago you need a nat gas furnace.
Imagine having a toaster the size of the gas furnace you have now running day and night. How high would the bill be? What would it cost to heat the Willis tower?
Now if there were a way to harness all the hot air the politicians spew out of their mouths daily we would be energy independent overnight. LOL?