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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“The Medicaid insurers’ annual reports for last year show they earned substantial profits from their Illinois contracts.” Well, of course they did. Illinois taxpayers pay the private-sector MCO’s so much that the MCO’s simply don’t care about fraud and waste among SEIU’s tens of thousands of Medicaid home health care aides. They don’t have to. Why worry about the millions upon millions of dollars paid to in-home health aides (friends-n-family of the disabled) that result from personal assistants “working” many more hours than are allowed by the MCO’s service plans? If you can bank a healthy profit and not worry… Read more »