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.”
While this new advisory referendum could be nothing more than a political distraction, it could also be that lawmakers are gauging Illinoisans’ appetite for another bite at a progressive income tax hike – this time with lower property taxes as a sweetener.
At $1.5 million per job, the new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs.
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Consider that pulling your child from the school system is actually playing into the educator’s hands because with less students there are less expenses meaning more available funds that can be used for pay raises. Heads they win or tails we lose situation that could only happen in Illinois.
If you want school choice then move to Indiana.
OK so you Illinois parents put your big boy pants on and do what many others were forced to do and home school your own kids and prevent the government schools run by liberal atheists from teaching your kids who have skulls full of mush how to become Saul Alinsky punks that will wreck havoc in the future on our nation. Grow up! Sell that McMansion in the Burbs, leave your corrupt corporate jobs, become parents for once and raise your children properly by not relying on the schools and the government to do it. So you think you are… Read more »
Excellent, Forget Gates math, there was nothing wrong with real math all these centuries, and start teaching and learning from anccient world history with the successes and failures learn about all the different and how society improved and failed, American history, the Constitution, the Declaration the Magna Carta. Why wars were started. How slavery began in ancient times and how countries overcame. Learn from the past. Not from business people but from the libraries. Your education is in the libraries and it’s free.
School Choice would set free CPS families – they would be released. The CTU would continue to get theirs for doing little to nothing. But at least the kids of families that cared would have a chance.
Intelligent caring parents who had the means to abandon the Chicago Public School system did so in bulk years ago. Those who are left are in a powerless minority position where reform is concerned. The Union CTU relies on the uninformed ignorance and neglect of the lower classes to do whatever they please.
Wow Eugene from a pay phone that is true and heavy.
The truth is out there and your access is at your fingertips. Do it.
Amen
The greed-crazed unions and their politician lapdogs don’t care what the people want
Amen Governor
Home school or do a co op.