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.”
Keep voting for leftists and this is what you should expect!
Vote for Democrats, pay high taxes.
The North Shore crowd may have wealth, but they don’t have brains.
The retired superintendent of the New Trier Schools district has one of the highest pensions in the State. As PPF says, pensions must be paid and by the taxpayers.
Well, Mark and other New Trier families voted in the school board to pay that high wage to the superintendent so it’s what the voters wanted. Seems like a fair contract and a fair trade of the employees labor for agreed upon compensation. All is right in the world.
You are blind if you do not see that it is going to kill the “Golden Goose”.
There should be a cap on all pensions, a fair and reasonable cap for everyone.
There already is a cap on pensions that started in 2011. However, you can’t change the contract of existing pension members to now add a cap as they are approaching retirement just because you find it unfair. The school district and duly elected board members weighed those issues and ultimately decided on a fair wage. Your desire to steal from these people isn’t allowed.
My motto for Illinois;
Stay and Pay, Leave and Save.