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 Democrats are drinking their own kool-aid with the abundance of articles like this in the weeks before the election. It’s really just a coordinated psyop, that every publication is doing at the same time, to rally Democrats to vote and to demoralize Republicans. But everyone in the know understands how dire things are. Joe Biden knows things are so bad that he’s giving a national speech tomorrow declaring that MAGA Republicans (75,000,000 voters in 2020) are a threat to Democracy. Their game plan to rally demoralized Democrats to vote is “vote Democrat or else Republicans will destroy Democracy”. This… Read more »
I would LOVE to see Biden give the speech without a teleprompter/cues cards and notes. Then it will be worth watching and recording.
He went off script the other day and started telling stories about black areas of Baltimore having the highest crime rates but the best basketball in the state. Of course the legacy old school media doesn’t report on that but there are clips of the insane comments all over the internet.
I’m normally demoralized voting in the once great state of illinios. But I still go vote. Now and then there’s a win.