If you care about the plight of America’s K-12 students, especially Chicago’s, invest an hour to watch the free film linked below.
It’s a documentary from the Illinois Policy Institute showing how the Chicago Teachers Union came to be a dominant political force and the impact of their militant leadership on students, parents and the city of Chicago. It also sets out solutions to those challenges.
Its relevance is not limited to Chicago. The CTU is the local affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, which shares its philosophy. From the film’s producers:
Proudly radical, explicitly political and confrontational to its core, the Chicago Teachers Union has revolutionized the American labor movement. But as the union tightens its grip on Illinois and exports its influence nationwide, “Local 1” reveals the true cost for students, parents and teachers – and provides hope for a brighter future.
-Mark Glennon
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
While a Lewis was from Chicago, one things that’s never discuses with regard to CTU leadership is that all these folks like Gates, Sharkey, Potter, etc are all people who came here from somewhere else with the expressed intent to get involved in leftest/union politics…teaching, kids, parents & taxpayers are just a side issue. You could probably say the same thing about pols like Prekwinkle, Lighfoot, etc and a lot of people in press and academia as well. For them using Chicagoan’s and in particular low income black & brown folks like stage prop/ guine pigs to further there own… Read more »
Hmm, I think you can include Rham in this mix. I feel sorry for the Japanese…..
and Obama, he’s the best example. carpetbagger lib
Ends with hope for a brighter future? Move to Milwaukee? I must have missed that segment. Profoundly depressing, especially when linked to Chicago’s slide into crime,
disorder, and chaos which comes from diversity, inclusion, and equity, otherwise known
as DIE.
When you consider what CPS was more than one hundred years ago, when it did give
its kids opportunities, such as the first Pritzker who went to Schurz.
And late last year Illinois voted to put Ammendment 1 into the Illinois Constitution. I’m afraid we aint seen nothing yet. They will be empowered to hell and back.
TFW Jesse Sharkey had to go back to the classroom because of the optics of a white male running CTU.
Karen Lewis is the most disgusting person I’ve had the displeasure of seeing and hearing screech on television. What an embarrassment to the city and frankly the union too. Jesse the slimey wannabe was pretty bad too. There’s not many people I’ve ever been glad to hear died, Osama Bin Laden, John wayne gacy and Karen Lewis come to mind.
CTU Is a cancer on Chicago — it should be given the chemotherapy of a full bore federal RICO prosecution
Fantastically depressing & with passage of Amendment 1 CTUs only going to get more powerful. Great advetising for U-Haul, state of Florida & Texas, etc….and why in the world if your a family of middle or modest means would you ever choose Chicago as a place to raise a family?
Mafia