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.”
The pot could be made right by re-directing the Federal and State funding incentives toward those absorbing the enormous environmental/economic risk of the endeavor: foremost, Manteno property owner/taxpayers, then concentric circles of smaller risk outward from there (surrounding locations, Illinois taxpayers).
The problem with all these take-money-from-the-many-and-give-it-to-me-and-my-chums political schemes is: the pot isn’t right when profits are built upon the losses of the politicians’ victims.
The pot can be made right by distributing equitable portions of the presumed profits to those bearing the proximate risks.