Salary freezes, firings and school closings are needed to get CPS finances back on track – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer

Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the push in Springfield to legalize prostitution in Illinois, the fact that Bally’s had to warn potential investors about the impact of Chicago’s crime on their potential revenues, why CPS should implement a salary freeze, and more.

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Waggs
1 year ago

I’ve said it before… CPS does not need to hire one single person more. Shift all the “administrators”, “facilitators”, “instructional leaders”, etc., all of whom have teaching certificates, out of their cushy admin jobs where all they do is crawl up my ass and tell me what I’m doing wrong, back into the classrooms. I’ve been at CPS almost 30 years. In that time, the number of students has decreased and the number of administrators/non-classroom personnel has exponentially increased.

Zephyr Window
1 year ago

Never, ever going to happen. The CPS slugs not only want the cake and to eat it but they want to lick the bowl clean.

Where's Mine ???
1 year ago

You got to figure if JB still has any national political ambitions he’s got to be cr#ppen as he watches Chicago circling the drain towards insolvency while CTUs going to be walking away as highest paid teachers in nation by a long shot..all on his watch….a complete rediculous joke!

Where's Mine ???
1 year ago

and again, you can bet your bottom dollar all the teachers in all Illinois crazy 852 school dist are glued into watching the $$deal$$ CTU lands (zero layoffs from COVID spending, highest pay nationally, etc) and will be demanding the same state wide!!! Maybe nationally!!! What’s JBs reputation going to be letting this happen on his watch???

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Freddy
1 year ago

Nothing will happen as long as taxpayers are footing the bill.
Everything mentioned at Wirepoints would happen immediately if parents had to pay tuition. When they get a bill for over $30K per child parents would be outraged and the per pupil expenditures would drop to $10K or so. Here in Rockford private schools are approx $8-11K depending on grade vs public at over $21K. Here is some info for Rockford dist 205.
https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?ID2=1734510
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17AyWS9EFGKuwMV6deysXFtt9d3kNpWImc3Ny8iVXzNw/edit?tab=t.0

Free at Last
1 year ago

None of which will happen.

Leaving Soon, just not soon enough
1 year ago
Reply to  Free at Last

Spot on.

JShark
1 year ago
Reply to  Free at Last

Let them pretend Free. It seems to make them happy.

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