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.”
If the voters of Illinois really want a balanced budget they will start increasing funding to the pension funds. Increase taxes or cut spending. Increasing income taxes to 5.95% should get the 4 billion the state needs.
Instead we get people that complain about the budget but don’t want to increase taxes or cut spending elsewhere to pay for it.
Though I wholeheartedly agree that pension payment holidays have to go and an influx of tax revenues and ceasation of state giveaways are the only way to get past this financial mess, I don’t see IL voters tolerating much more taxation. When the governor starts up new revenue sucking programs without identifying new funding, you know there’s a major disconnect. But consider this: JB has NEVER had to budget for anything. He’s a billionaire! His life has been one of unfettered indulgence. How can you expect someone with that kind of background to be fiscally responsible? Especially since he declared… Read more »
I’ve said this many times before. When we get our tax bills and within that are our pension payments obligations either directly or indirectly that are included in the contracts. So the bill we receive indicates that our responsibility for that year is paid in full but it never is. This is on the local level. Nowhere on any tax bill does it say This is only a partial payment and you are still responsible for pension managers not getting expected returns of 7%. So the money we pay from property and other taxes is credited to current employees on… Read more »