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.”
The last WTTW public meeting report in December 2021 is filled with DEI garbage. It likely has gotten much worse in the two years of secrecy since then. Taxpayer money has no place with NPR, Public Radio or Public TV. Democrat Propaganda doesn’t need to be funded by the taxpayers especially since public broadcasting hates half of the population.
I see that WTTW has not posted these advisory board reports for several years:https://interactive.wttw.com/about/community-advisory-board/meeting-reports
Are their ratings/subscriptions tanking? On the other hand, from a couple days ago, this ST article has ST Executive Editor J Kho writing that things are going DEI swimmingly, subscriptions are up, at ST-WBEZ new Chicago Public Media non-profit partnership. I guess WTTW is not part of ST-WBEZ Chicago Public Media non-profit partnership?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/28/24000102/sun-times-top-stories-2023-community-listening-readers-plans-2024