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- Chicago News , Conspiracy and World News , Education , LAW & ORDER , Uncategorized , Washington Politics , World News
- January 6, 2025
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Here are the remaining sticking points in contract talks between CPS and CTU
I Think CTU and CPS should read my other article – “Chicago Public Schools need an Alpha School Education! On Making The Grade? | Dr. Phil Primetime!!” After eight months of contentious talks that cost CEO Pedro Martinez his job, Chicago Public Schools teacher contract negotiations are entering a decisive phase. The union and the district provided separate bargaining updates late Friday afternoon suggesting they are making some progress — and both sides said they agreed to pause a neutral fact-finding process that started in October. The district and union both said they have reached tentative agreements to expand the number of Sustainable Community Schools to 70 over the next four years, hire more English learner teachers and other staff, and jointly look for ways to offer housing help to homeless students. But many sticking points remain, and union leaders this week accused Martinez of standing in the way of a final deal, saying progress at the bargaining table stalled after a judge ruled on Dec. 24 that the CEO remains in charge of negotiations during his six remaining months on the job. “The fact that we don’t have a yes now is because of one person, and only one person,” said CTU President Stacy Davis Gates, citing alignment between their proposals and the district’s new five-year strategic plan. On Friday, Martinez and other district leaders forcefully rejected the idea that the district has blocked progress, countering that in fact much headway has been made. Martinez had accused school board members,…
- Chicago News , City Budget Council Meeting , Conspiracies , LAW & ORDER , Uncategorized , Washington Politics , World News
- December 26, 2024
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Editorial: Mr. Mayor, if you truly care about Chicago, you should step aside.
Mr. Mayor, When it comes to dirty politics, Chicago wrote the book. Anyone old enough to remember awful chapters of our collective history — the shameful Council Wars period of the 1980s, the abuses brought to light by the notorious Operation Silver Shovel investigation of the 1990s, or the details that recently have emerged from the trials of former Ald. Ed Burke and former House Speaker and ward boss Mike Madigan — should perhaps guard against sounding too shocked by news that a Chicago elected official has stooped to a new low. But there’s little reason to doubt what happened tonight — the firing of Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez — will go down in Chicago history as another example of rotten government at work. Ald. Nicholas Sposato put it succinctly in his remarks during tonight’s special meeting of the Chicago Board of Education, calling your hand-picked school board members “a bunch of political hacks that are stepping in to do some dirty work.” Those who attended the meeting expressed frustration with a range of issues and challenges facing the CPS system — and that system includes the teachers and staffers who work there every day, the neighborhoods that rely on the schools as anchors of their communities, the parents who want the best possible education for their children, and the children themselves. What’s more than unfortunate is that the actions your board took tonight — and the actions they can now be relied upon to take next —…
