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.”
Is anyone from Illinois reading this? What have the unions brought to the table except suffocating pension costs, strikes and refusals to work if benefits are diminished? Illinois needs a clawback provision when the pensioners move out of state – reduce their benefit or have them pay taxes to Illinois equal to the income tax rate. They created the mess, they should have to suffer the consequences.
Well, so far there is pesky little “pension clause” in the 1970 IL Constitution that states once a pension has been granted it shall not be reduced or even diminished. But, perhaps you that and may simply be wishing it away.