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.”
Barickman is absolutely correct.
This bill is a total perversion of the original intent of the Section 8 program. The underlying philosophy of this bill is to foist the solution to the housing problem onto the private apartment building owners. Not many people know the history of Section 8, which was designed in the 1980’s to encourage developers to include some low income tenants into their rental pool– not to threaten them with stopping their projects unless they did such and such. Barickman and the owners groups are right to fight this bad bill.