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 will be similar to training a new generation of buggy whip makers, because solar is unsustainable and totally unreliable. Most people realize that solar is not the solution to green energy. In the Chicago area 176 out of 365 days, or 48 percent, are cloudy and little or reduced power is produced. That doesn’t include the number of days that solar panels are covered with snow and produce no power at all, so call it 50 percent of daylight hours. Solar panels only produce peak energy when the sun is highest in the sky in the summer. Due to… Read more »
translation: wage slaves needed from which to extort operating expenses for the state.