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.”
I don’t know none of it makes sense to me, counties bordering cook county the homestead exemption goes from 6,000 to 8,000 and the senior exemption from 5,000 to 8,000 for collar counties. The counties that would qualify and benefit from these updated exemptions would be only Dupage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties they border cook county and are the collar counties. Anyone have any input what about all the other counties in Illinois, sounds like campaign swindling on Pritzker’s part to fool people.
Not sure what this exactly means but Cook county seems to benefit the most considering the county has over 3M population. What will the exemption be for Boone and Winnebago county? In Ptell counties if the exemption increases or an abatement is given that means the property tax RATE increases to compensate the lower overall EAV. A long while back when the senior exemption increased by $1K Winnebago county lost $24M in EAV since 24K seniors benefited from the reduction but the tax rate went up. This will probably be advertised en masse to the voters before the election and… Read more »