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.”
Thank goodness these teachers won’t have to dip into their bank of 204 sick days.
Pure discrimination
Does teacher paid covid sick day bill provide any temporary or permanent funding by state (fed arpa funds?) to school districts to pay for all the sick days? Or, i assume, this is yet another state mandate bill conceived by pubic sec unions and pushed through state legislature that local municipalities or school districts have to some how pay for??…and once again, if your just a chump taxpayer/ homeowner your not even the game..and the sad reality is most taxpayers are to stupid to even realize it
I guess all any public sec education employee has to do to claim virtually unlimited covid sick days is claim they or their family members have potentially come in contact with someone with covid, not even necessarily within a school? No proof required? No follow-up? Zero projections of what this bill could potentially cost local school districts? Zero funding provided of who or how all the sick day will be paid for? This is nothing more than a stealth covid $hazard pay$ deal!! if your any other public sec employee in any of the crazy 7,000 units of gov– from… Read more »