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.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Chicago Public Schools should reject union demands for 9% yearly raises and implement a salary freeze instead.
- A bit of Chicago truth-telling: Actuaries warn of insolvency, businesses fear crime
- Chicago’s weak luxury real estate market goes beyond Ken Griffin
- Only half of Chicago Public Schools’ $10 billion in yearly spending makes it to the classroom
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
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.
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.
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!
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???
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
None of which will happen.
Spot on.
Let them pretend Free. It seems to make them happy.