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.”
It’s nice that Rivian makes cool stuff because their stock is down about 80% in the last 4 months, from $170 per share to about $30 per share. In the first quarter of this year, Amazon had a $7.6 billion write down and Ford a $5.4 billion write down to their earnings from this decrease in stock price. Both are partners with Rivian and Amazon a customer for 100,000 electric delivery vans.
Coolest thing that very few can afford so what good is it. Top of the line pickup is around 100K other models start around 72K. What will battery replacement cost down the road?
https://www.caranddriver.com/rivian/r1s
This article does not bode well for the company and Illinois
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/2/22958066/rivian-price-increase-r1t-r1s-for-new-and-existing-reservations They are increasing prices by up to $20K even if you reserved one which Tesla does not do.
You’d be surprised on that who-can-afford-what topic. I know a few farmers who HATE paying more income tax than necessary so much that they’ll buy top-of-the-line pickup trucks costing $70,000-ish as their MSRP so it becomes a business expense. I remember one telling me his had a Corvette V-8 engine in it. That was maybe four years ago, and maybe such engines aren’t even available for pickups at this point for all I know. Again, its safe to saythe gasoline expenses for those 16 m.p.g pickups are a business expense as well. That’s how much they hate paying income taxes.