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The recent lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court accuses the union and leadership of allegedly conspiring to call an illegal strike. The union was protesting Chicago Public Schools. CTU claims CPS didn’t do enough to protect them from the spread of COVID-19.
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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Close it. Fire them all. Restart without the Union…or don’t restart. Not much learning going on anyway. Daycare, Food Service and Transportation is what the District effectively offers now.
No downvotes? Hmmm, I guess the downvoter doesn’t want to take time out of their spring break to downvote.
Spot on. CTU members are a biblical pestilence. A lazy pestilence but a plague nonetheless.
CTU is a complete and total failure. The only solution is to toss them all into the garbage. Bust CTU now. School vouchers for all.
Hmmmm…if Satan had a weave…a very bad weave.
Little granny killers killing granny on the exhale, tru$t the $cience!
Articles like this are what prompt me to laugh in a CTU members face when I hear about how hard the job is, it’s all about the kids, etc. If there are in fact “ good teachers “ that are as disgusted with Gates as everyone else, then how does she get voted in and retain her position?
When only 3 in 10 CTU students function at grade level, every other whining complaint out of their well fed mouth’s is nothing more than garbage. Educate some kids and then come back with complaints CTU vermin; we might listen then.