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.”
This is what is going on in California. Simply a one party goverment does whatever it wants.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/flurry-laws-move-blue-red-120138932.html
Thanks for linking this article. My biggest reservation about doing anything in IL is that we live in a very very blue state and it takes so much effort of everyone to shift the state to the right on any particular issue. And if we make any significant progress, the progressive response will be 10x harder right back at us. We may have won the mask issue for now, but now we are a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants, we perform most of the midwest’s abortions, and teachers/librarians/coaches are encouraged to talk to children about gender and sexuality and are… Read more »