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Rugian
Member Fri Oct 11 08:36:42
"On Monday Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson replaced the entire Chicago school board with his allies after the previous board resigned en masse last Friday. The previous board opposed the mayor’s plan to take a $300 million high-interest loan to hand raises to the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), which funded his election campaign. Asked about the opposition to his loan scheme, Mr. Johnson pulled out the slavery card.

“When our people wanted to be liberated and emancipated in this country, the argument was, you can’t free black people because it would be too expensive,” he said. “They said that it would be fiscally irresponsible for this country to liberate black people. And now you have detractors making the same argument of the Confederacy when it comes to public education in this system.”

The Chicago school district is junk rated, so Mr. Johnson’s plan for a $300 million loan would cost CPS more than $700 million. The union wants 9% annual raises, climate initiatives and affordable housing units, among other non-teaching benefits that would cost between $10.2 billion and 13.9 billion, according to the Illinois Policy Institute.

Equating his opponents to slavery defenders is nasty and ahistorical, and the question should be who is really keeping Chicago’s children enslaved? The CTU contract Mr. Johnson is advocating won’t improve results for students.

It will hand huge raises to his union allies who want to keep students trapped in their failing union-run schools. Only 25% of Chicago students are proficient in reading and only around 20% are proficient in math, according to data from Wirepoints."

http://www...=opinion_feat1_editorials_pos1

Vote for Harris if you want this shit to come to your community.

Sam Adams
Member Fri Oct 11 12:57:36
Dems will probably try to get feds to cover that bill with some "emergency equity" provision in storm relief or something like that.

Corrupt to the core.

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Rugian Member	Fri Oct 11 08:36:42 "On Monday Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson replaced the entire Chicago school board with his allies after the previous board resigned en masse last Friday. The previous board opposed the mayor’s plan to take a $300 million high-interest loan to hand raises to the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), which funded his election campaign. Asked about the opposition to his loan scheme, Mr. Johnson pulled out the slavery card. “When our people wanted to be liberated and emancipated in this country, the argument was, you can’t free black people because it would be too expensive,” he said. “They said that it would be fiscally irresponsible for this country to liberate black people. And now you have detractors making the same argument of the Confederacy when it comes to public education in this system.” The Chicago school district is junk rated, so Mr. Johnson’s plan for a $300 million loan would cost CPS more than $700 million. The union wants 9% annual raises, climate initiatives and affordable housing units, among other non-teaching benefits that would cost between $10.2 billion and 13.9 billion, according to the Illinois Policy Institute. Equating his opponents to slavery defenders is nasty and ahistorical, and the question should be who is really keeping Chicago’s children enslaved? The CTU contract Mr. Johnson is advocating won’t improve results for students. It will hand huge raises to his union allies who want to keep students trapped in their failing union-run schools. Only 25% of Chicago students are proficient in reading and only around 20% are proficient in math, according to data from Wirepoints." http://www...=opinion_feat1_editorials_pos1 Vote for Harris if you want this shit to come to your community.
Sam Adams Member	Fri Oct 11 12:57:36 Dems will probably try to get feds to cover that bill with some "emergency equity" provision in storm relief or something like that. Corrupt to the core.
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