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Chicagoans hoping for change can make their voices heard this election season. The mayoral election is an opportunity to ask whether CORE’s leadership of the CTU best serves Chicago students. Judging by public schools’ academic and enrollment declines, as well as the union’s preference for political militancy over educational excellence, that question should not be hard to answer.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Corrected Headline: “Terrorists. Not Educators. The Chicago Terrorist Union.”
More like domestic terrorists
If anyone in the private sector produced such abysmal results, they’d be out on their butts. Chicagoans and CPS students deserve teachers who have the youngsters’ best interest in mind, not the union’s agenda. CTU is so far off the reservation – negotiating far more than unions should have the right to address – that there may be no option but to fire all CTU members and start up CPS with non-union teachers. Former CTU teachers can apply for their old jobs. There are many CPS teachers who deplore what CTU has become, but they are into self-preservation and remain… Read more »
“If anyone in the private sector produced such abysmal results, they’d be out on their butts.”
The UAW, GM, Chrysler, and the Obama Administration say hello. I hope you enjoyed bailing out GM in 2009. You’ll probably be doing it again soon.
That said, I agree wholeheartedly with your and other posters assessments of the CTU and the abysmal state of Chicago and other Big Blue City schools.
It’s as if their endgame is to remain at home teaching no classes yet getting paid handsomely for it. By you, the taxpaying chumbalone.
Pay for performance only. Let the CTU promote education for once.
Mafia Thugs.