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.”
What JB is not saying is that all the cameras are the old disposable ones that you have to have developed and some Polaroids. Some have built in flash!
What would that $15-$20 million be able to do for local law enforcement? More officers and more equipment seems a better way to spend the money. The disturbing part of this is we won’t know how they are actually using the video feed from cameras. They already have them at toll booths so why the needed surveillance?
Maybe it is so they can track how many people are leaving Illinois. They laughingly think the numbers are overstated. Not that people need another reason to leave, but here it is.
12.5 $M for 150 cameras is 83,000 per camera, but 20 $M in budget. If we have a camera act on the books (a law) we need another piece of legislature to add cameras? Let the Lack of Leadership governor JB tell us the effectiveness of such cameras, the conviction rate then the prison time for such cases.
Besides the ridiculous cost, what good are cameras when there are so many stolen vehicles used by criminals?
VOTE THE BUM OUT!