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.”
Why even bother spending millions for a train line for 75 passengers a day? You could fit 75 people onto a bus and do that trip for hundreds of millions cheaper. They want to spend millions to connect to Dubuque which is roughly the size of Mt. Prospect. It makes no sense.
75? Less when JB the Hutt and Alyson Arwady re-implement their worthless mask mandate on public transit. Then we’re back to running the trains and buses mainly to keep train crews and bus drivers busy hauling empty seats back and forth.
What the consultants won’t say is that the lion’s share of the startup costs is to install Positive Train Control on the old Illinois Central route. The system isn’t needed on lines that don’t have scheduled passenger service, so the Canadian National tracks this service would use were exempted from that unfunded mandate. This technology is frighteningly expensive to install and maintain and the already flat broke IDOT would have to fund most of it, with Federal taxpayers picking up the rest of the tab. The operating shortfall is simply excused away by transit advocates as normal for rail passenger… Read more »