Illinois has more educators, less students than ever, yet officials complain about a ‘teacher shortage’ – Wirepoints
May 15, 2024
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Illinois education officials continuously claim there’s a teacher shortage across the state. Yet data from the state’s own Illinois Report Card shows that hiring at schools has been booming over the last 25 years, especially when you consider that student enrollment has been shrinking at the same time.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the failures of Mayor Johnson’s first year in office, what Chicago’s future looks like, why so many CPS teachers are chronically absent, the details of Gov. Pritzker’s $827 million giveaway to Rivian, and more.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/12/2024.
Only 9 of the 50 states have mask mandates. On Monday there were 67k fans at the college football game in Indy. Nobody was wearing a mask. Illinois govt and media is all BS and gaslighting. They are ruining Chicago like NY, Portland, Seattle, San Fran.
No one knows when these will mandates will end. I don’t know if Lori and Toni even have any idea when they intend on ending the mandates. There’s a couple of different camps. Some say they’ll end when this major surge dies down because restaurants will be begging for it. Others say it will end around summer time because tourism. Some even say they will end near the mid-terms because they only motivate opponents to go to the polls. My personal opinion is that they won’t end until coronavirus ends aka never. A red tsunami wave in Nov 2022 will… Read more »
I read a story around Christmas (or maybe earlier), where the CEO of Goldman Sachs I believe, said they believe things will begin to start getting back to normal at the end of January…
I haven’t heard anymore about this tho…
But usually when big $$ talks people listen…
I agree, they will double the beatings to show how sincere they are to protect us. Suddenly folding wouldn’t reflect well for a defense. The recent SCOTUS decision indicates the judges have read the tea leaves, they’re all Red! The Biden clowns are being advised by California Physics.