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.”
Sorry…no “help from Springfield”—there is no money. Chicago is the sanctuary city and must solve the issues itself.
Every day more and more people, for whatever reason, come to think, “Suggest anything you can come up with, as long as you quit admitting people who cross illegally now.” The Fed DC Swamp’s got to figure out how to get that done before they’ll be willing to bail out ‘sanctuary’ cities and states. And they can’t figure it out. They know they can’t ‘fix’ Chicago and Springfield without ‘fixing’ every Blue city in every Blue state at the same time. They’ll have to ‘fix’ Blue Denver-n-Boulder and the rest of not-nearly so Blue (our outright Red) Colorado. And they’ll… Read more »