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.”
Interviewer failed to ask the tough questions…no mention of property tax relief, population exodus, corporation exodus, pension crisis…nothing but fluff
There are no more decent interviewers – once they were a dying breed; now they are extinct.
A typical Wirepoints reader would know what questions to ask – too bad MSM is staffed by shills.
Before a corporation moves to a state they do a careful analysis of everything – from housing to school quality to power availability to taxes and and business climate. Plus, a myriad of other topics like crime, and workforce.
That analysis is why corporations are leaving and why none of any substance are moving to Illinois.
One party rule screwed up the state and is screwing up our country.
In November, vote the bums OUT!
Lt Gov Stratton, of what value is affordable college when the applicants can’t read?
What a bunch of canned, talking point hot air. How about reforming workers’ comp; lowering corporate and individual income tax rates; lowering property taxes; providing school choice to all those downstate communities where reading and math scores are pathetic so an employer can find workers who can read and count their change; a state initiative on solving downtown Chicago crime that is stifling tourism and retail; a serious discussion on addressing the pension mess. Not one word about any of that. Do you really think Caterpillar, Boeing and hundreds of other businesses are interested in “lifting people up”, “lifting up… Read more »
You want Rauner’s campaign platform that was DOA the night he was first elected.
700,000 new voters showed up in 2018 to vote out Rauner and elect JB to make sure Rauner’s platform was sent to the dustbin of herstory.
JB’s voters don’t care about those things. They only care for trans-rights, free stuff, globohomo, freeing criminals, etc.