Ted Dabrowski joined WXAN to talk about the latest walkout by the Chicago Teachers Union. It’s important for all Illinoisans to understand what’s going on in Chicago for two reasons. One, the CTU serves as a powerful example to their local teachers unions. And two, all Illinoisans eventually end up paying for the crises in Chicago.
Read more about the Chicago Public Schools:
- Six sources of Chicago Teachers Union power
- Chicago teachers are paid some of the highest salaries of any big district in the nation. What do Chicago parents get in return?
- Give in to the most militant teachers union in the country and this is what you get: Another walkout
- How can 84% of Chicago Public Schools students graduate when only 26% of 11th graders are proficient in reading, math?
- Families continue to flee Chicago Public Schools as it loses 14,000 students in 2022
- True inequality: In-class education at Chicago’s Catholic schools but remote learning at public schools
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. 
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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.”
Meanwhile in today’s Wall Street Journal, there is a story about more and more public pension funds pumping their money into private equity funds chasing larger returns. Given the politically connected fund managers with their fingers in public pension funds statewide. What could possibly go wrong?
The CTU has to suffer a big loss because of this crap. If Lori let’s them off with another “win win” which is always a “lose” for parents, she is toast, kids are still robbed, taxpayers are still robbed, everyone and I mean everyone is literally being extorted here including pols friendly to unions. Extortion so a crime. Nothing will ever change unless this union suffers this time. Lightfoot is the “man” in her lesbian relationship, she needs to prove that and “man up” to these CTU thug extortionosts.
Rikki don’t lose that number. When you sink into the gutter, you lose any high ground. Lori is butch, but that’s not the point. She needs to stand up for the families in the city for once. Youngkin proved in VA, that a reasonable, positive candidate who points out the hypocrisy and corrupt policy of the Democrats can win. You do t have to resort to personal attacks. Their records are so horrible they have no leg to stand on. All that being said, a certain amount of public anger seems to be necessary to foment change. In Loudon Co,… Read more »