How Chicago Public Schools Are Destroying That City

From George Shay at Chicago Contrarian we get the following. CPS Corruption Exposé Shows Why Chicago Teachers Union’s Reign of Terror Must End — Now

Those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach…govern. This must stop

Chicago did not arrive at this moment by accident. The city did not simply “lose its way.” What we are living through is the predictable outcome of institutional capture, centered on one sprawling bureaucracy that now consumes a staggering share of your property taxes while producing fewer students, worse outcomes, and a governing class increasingly detached from reality: Chicago Public Schools.

Chicago spends $30,000 per student, with little to show in the way of actual education, as measured by test results. They got PPP loans despite being fully funding during the lockdown. They spent money on bus services during the remote-learning fiasco. There were 355 sexual misconduct cases in a single year. Residency rules (teachers are supposed to live in the city) were ignored. And more.

The CTU is now a political machine, one that trains candidates, finances campaigns, writes policy, and enforces ideological discipline.

Its alumni dominate City Hall and exert enormous influence over Cook County and Springfield. Mayor Brandon Johnson is not an outlier; he is the model. His ascent from classroom to union leadership to the fifth floor is the clearest illustration of how CPS culture metastasized into city governance.

Read the whole thing, because it is not only Chicago that is being destroyed.