There are two people from different parts of the country writing about Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union in one week.
Chicago Contrarian has the story I am most interested in. CPS Corruption Exposé Shows Why the CTU’s Reign of Terror Must End — Now
Those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach, govern. That has to stop. We have to stop it
Chicago didn’t wake up one morning and discover itself governed by incompetents.
This disaster was grown, nurtured, and weaponized inside the very institution that now consumes the largest share of your property taxes while delivering ever-worsening results: the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the demons who have possessed it, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), led by the Notorious SDG, Stacy Davis Gates.
Chicago Public Schools consumes an enormous amount of money. What do the students get? That is a good question.
Chicago now spends nearly $40,000 per pupil on a system with declining enrollment, a ballooning bureaucracy, and outcomes that would embarrass a developing country. Functional illiteracy is up. Discipline is down. Parents are fleeing, taking their children with them, continuing the systemic death spiral.
Click through for the details.
Meep at STUMP has a story about the CTU being upset, and then a compendium of stories from the past few years. CTU Making Friends and Influencing People By Suing the Illinois Policy Institute
The subtitle is to the point.
The IPI has been big ole meanies by pointing out the CTU has not been a positive contributor to Chicago education
Meep is an actuary, so her interest in Chicago Public Schools is usually directed at the state of the pensions. (They are not in a good state.) But occasionally she can't help but covering other issues.
So, I’ve been enjoying the hissy fit that the CTU (Chicago Teachers Union) has been having over the past couple of days by saying it’s filing a lawsuit against the Illinois Policy Institute.
She has a bit of information about the lawsuit. Click thru.
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