The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
The bill passed despite their votes in response to certain incidents where local prosecutors are thought to have been too lenient with non-citizens assaulting cops.
Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss how politicians can never spend enough on education despite there being no accountability for that spending, the growth of education staffing across Illinois, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $1 billion demand for Chicago schools, why Gov. Pritzker is providing $830 million in taxpayer subsidies to struggling EV carmaker Rivian, and more.
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If you want to reduce high rates of homelessness, why not support two-flat owners? Many black owners of rental properties developed generational wealth by buying a building and fixing it up. Many of them, when interviewed, said they were committed to improving their communities. That all changed when the eviction moratorium forced many to sell. (Profit margins were pretty thin anyway.) Illinois hates small landlords. Illinois won’t even pass an anti-squatter bill to protect homeowners.
Got plenty of abandoned homes and apartment buildings they could fix up for them.
The irony is that those homes were built 60-100 years by immigrants who came to this country penniless and built their very neighborhoods they lived in. The current residents of these neighborhoods would rather live in tents on the street than fix up the homes the former residents built with their own hands. Reminds me of the passage from Xenophon’s account of his travels through Nineveh. As he retreated through Persia he came across an abandoned city with walls 100 feet high and 25 feet wide. He didn’t know it but he was visiting the great city of Nivevan, the… Read more »
Some get a pile of bricks and build a nice house. Others get a nice house and turn it into a pile of bricks.