Ted joined Shaun Thompson to talk about about the Chicago Teachers Union’s absurd new contract demands, why so many Chicago teachers are chronically absent, and Brandon Johnson’s failed first year as mayor.
What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
The bill passed despite their votes in response to certain incidents where local prosecutors are thought to have been too lenient with non-citizens assaulting cops.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
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Miller – political hack of the century.
Miller – bought & paid for by Freddie Pritzker. “He who pays the piper plays the tune”
Miller – please disclose your sources of funding to ensure no conflict of interests.
Miller – your man is gonna lose in November.
Miller is Pritzker’s scrotum-caddy
Another Miller opinion piece filled with twitter-level ignorance of the law and conspiracy theories. He’s bloviating that Judge Grischow is wrong and he is right because of some obscure and non-applicable statute that says IEMA overrides IDPH statutes. This is QAnon level of conspiracy theory stuff. There’s been more than a dozen jurists who’ve reviewed the law – Judge Grischow, three appellate court judges, and 9 supreme court justices, and probably all of them (including the unpublished ILSC dissent by two Republican judges) and came to a different legal conclusion. But Rich’s legal QAnon conspiracy theories means that he knows… Read more »
He has been way, way, way behind the curve on this. Even on the politics of it. That’s the price of being a mouthpiece for the Springfield establishment.
Jb’s legal argument is that the IEMA law gives the executive branch nearly unlimited authority, almost king like power, to issue executive orders and edits for however he wishes, for however long he wants, for any reason he wants, without court review, while he alone can declare an emergency.
It’s a loser argument and it’s going nowhere. And it just gives ammunition to the IL GOP to call him a tyrant.
well then somebody better wake up the GOP debtsor because there still,in hibernation.
Don’t forget the racist dog whistles that only the QAnon left can hear…