The Tribune editorial is calling for Governor Pritzker to step in to address the Mayor Johnson-CTU Stacy Davis Gates orchestrated school crisis. He can do that by reactivating the Chicago School Finance Authority (SFA) to take financial control over the schools.
It would be accompanied by a NO STRIKE clause and SFA would be empowered to approve ALL contracts as well as the school district’s budget. It would also have the authority and capacity to conduct forensic audits.
With the state facing a budget deficit of $3.2 billion next year, it doesn’t have the money to provide schools statewide the over $4 billion needed to get the over $1 billion Johnson/Davis Gates demand. The state is certainly not going to raise taxes to do it.
CTU outrageous contract demands follow the last contract that raised CTU member salaries between 24-50% and added 9,000 positions since 2019. The district currently spends 30,000 per student and has ONE staff person for every 7.6 students and over 22,000 non-teachers.
If Pritzker fails to act, school reform advocates should seek a Federal Consent Decree that will end an education system that has confined poor, overwhelming minority, children in Chicago to failing schools.
Remember when I said the rich wouldn’t be safe? Now they are learning. We tried. We tried. Daniel Penny tried. No one is safe under Bolshevik Soros DA’s. Not even a CEO.
"We're the best offense in the nation." - from the Susquehanna press conference after putting up 42 points against an unranked team this past weekend. We will see if the Johnnie O and Johnnie D have anything to say on the field about that.
Since 2019, the city has ELIMINATED 1,700 police positions while the schools ADDED 9,000 new positions. Now Mayor threatens to CUT another 2,473 police if he doesn’t get his $300 million property tax hike while sending $300 million in TIF windfall to the schools to hire more CTU members.
Today, CPS has ONE employee for every 7.6 students. More than half their employees (over 22,000) are NON teachers. CPS has over 10,000 more NON-TEACHING STAFF than city police officers. CTU wants more staff, which means more CTU members and of course, more $$$ for politics.
Pritzker - Hold My Beer to Brandon Johnson, as he gives Rivian and Gotion $1.3 billion in subsidies and spends over $1B on illegals instead of providing property tax relief. And don't forget he cheated on his own property taxes.
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Zachary Levi NAILED IT
"I'm not voting for Donald Trump. I'm voting for Donald Trump and Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk and JD Vance and everyone else they're gonna bring in."
This Unity ticket is historic.
Tucker Carlson just got a standing ovation at the Trump rally after going on one of the most passionate rants I've ever seen from him
His breakdown of the Democrat party is perfect: "It's the party of weirdos, of envy, of hate, of resentment, of bitterness, of weakness, of a total lack of creativity. It's a party of conformity..."
We need to get Tucker to go to more Trump rallies. He is a master communicator of complex ideas.
@johnniefootball@HDtheTVman Loved reliving this memory on vacation in Ireland and watched some of the Johnnie game in a Pub there on my phone with a glorious pint.
Kamala's support is a mile wide & an inch deep.
She refuses to share policy positions because she knows they're widely unpopular.
President Trump's support is ROCK-SOLID & UNMOVING, because the American people remember his successful first term.
The pressure is on for Kamala.
BREAKING NEWS!!
In Illinois purchasing one of these will now require a 3 day waiting period and a background check.
Some Democrats say that isn't enough and want them banned completely.
Thanks to everybody who donated. We raised 750k. With the matching of the funds that brings the total to 1.5 million that will go directly to the family.
My name is Simon, I am unvaccinated. And for that, they branded me.
They called me selfish and dangerous, and labelled me a "Grandma KiIIer."
They stripped away my rights to work, travel, access hospitals, and even shop for groceries, all because I stood firm in my right to bodily integrity. It reached a point where there were Twitter users actually advocating for my death and it was me who got suspended from this platform and not them.
I was eventually proven right. But rather than admitting their wrongs, these perpetrators just brazenly moved onto the next topic: climate change!
But I won't let them get away with it and will remind them daily of their shameful deeds and their own words, because I don't want to wake up in a 15-minute city owning nothing and eating bugs.
Cheers!