Ted joined Mariano Gielis of Univision Chicago to discuss the Civic Federation’s analysis of the Chicago Public Schools’ budget mess and why it spells more trouble for Chicagoans. Below is Ted’s 45 second segment with subtitles.
For the full 4-minute segment on CPS’ budget, click here
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Chicago Public Schools should reject union demands for 9% yearly raises and implement a salary freeze instead.
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- Adults murdering kids. Kids murdering kids. “Random” bullets killing kids. Nearly 100 dead youth in Chicago in 2024
Audio and summary 
If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Give the CPS teachers a raise, they are doing such good work. Then pay additional pension money for 35 years or more after they retire. Looks like taxes will go higher.
CTU President- Stacy Davis Gates earns over $269,000 annually in her role as CTU President.
She sends her son to a Private Catholic School.
Two kids in Chicago – Both their landlords are in CA. Many have already physically left. The city taxpayers are viewd as no more than ‘marks’
Chicagoans don’t need defending. They voted for BJ and want more money going to the schools. It wasn’t like BJ promised to cut spending and taxes. If they want something different they will have their chance in the next election. Until that day, more money for schools. Time to increase taxes to pay for what the voters want.
Amen.
Wirepoints does a great job snuffing out positive momentum and convincing folks to give up and leave. I could spend all day countering the negativity and defeatism cultivated here. The worst part is that it’s still coming from the top down, you and ExIllini, even after Trump won.
Publius, denial is no strategy. Realism is not defeatism. If you have something to rebut what we right here, put it up.
What strategy does Wirepoints have? You’ve admitted before that most readers are out of state, so I think it’s safe to say that pandering to their nihilism is a waste. Strategy should involve identifying and educating critical swing people in Democratic citadels like Chicago and Cook County, not convincing high income demographics to leave. Who is the target reader of this article?
We’ve never said most of our readers are out of state, and we’ve never “admitted” to anything because we have nothing to hide. And if you don’t see who the target audience is of this article — that they are key swing people in Cook County — I can’t help you.
You posted stats from 2022 and claimed nearly 50% of readers are from out of state. A quick review of this comment section supports my observations. The median Cook County resident makes about 80K. Property tax hikes were defeated and are no longer a major financial threat to this tax bracket. You need to explain in simple terms if you want to take this approach. Eg.. If you make 50k, your bill will go up this much on this line, and here’s what you can do to prevent it. Univision viewers, who probably make under the median should care about… Read more »
Um, it was in Spanish and it was no actuary report. Good thing you aren’t advising Univsion on what works for their audience.
Pubius paints Univision viewers with a prejudicial brush I’m afraid.
Please counter the 4M new board room for the CPS. Please counter the +77K missing electronic apparatuses worth millions of dollars, some just now being recovered in foreign countries even though they had tracking devices on them from the get go. Please counter the ones being handed out since covid that parents are financially responsible for, unless they are underserved and get a waiver. Please make us feel better about all that. Perhaps you can bring “ hope and joy “, unlike Kamala.
Publius/Dave Hardy, don’t confuse observation with negativity and defeatism. You speak of all you could do but as yet, you haven’t done anything to drive meaningful change. If stating facts on a forum that allows both sides to make their case is enough to prevent your progress then you really didn’t have much to offer. I’m not being critical, as I don’t think you or anyone can change the trajectory that Illinois is on. I hope you will continue to downvote my comments so that I know you’re still out there and as angry as ever.
It requires no convincing at all. If you are not brain dead, you can see that the situation is only getting worse. Nobody has any solutions that the demofilth will consider. There is no Republican opposition nor for that matter any organized opposition at all. It has been that way for decades. As far back as I can remember. If you want to spend your life fighting the good fight against the demofilth and the lowlifes that vote for them, more power to you. I fought them for my whole adult life to no avail. I finally realized that life… Read more »
Sorry, I stopped watching after the “be scared, nobody is going to help” trope started to surface. Its stunts like this that lead to low voter turnout.
JShark – do you think higher taxes are exogenous to economic productivity?
Your question is irrelevant to the voters. They want more spending. You either dig a deeper debt hole or increase taxes if you want to spend more. Economic productivity be damned.
They want more spending, ya the free stuff army, illegals, and people that make demands that are not feasible.
Economic Productivity Be Damned. Good title for a book, subtitle The Theory and Practice of Public Unions.
I didn’t ask about relevancy. With your superior education, you decided to address relevancy among the populace as opposed to the fundamental economic question. Again, are higher taxes exogenous to productivity? Surely you can answer.
Chicagoans are obviously very stupid. What a trash city in a trash state. Glad I don’t live in that soon to be bankrupt, crime-filled dump.
whats missing is to inform Chicagoans what tax increases will be necessary to make up for spent ARPA-COVID/ ESSER funds currently in CPS budget. Same for city, state and Illinois 7,000 units of gov. Stop playing games
Hammer those sheep. They voted for this crap, now let them pay. They deserve every violation they receive. Illinois is proof that scum does not have the same rights as humans.