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Mar 8 • 10 tweets • 5 min read

🚨BREAKING: Leaked 142-page list of Chicago Teachers Union demands approved by delegates.

Last week, Stacy Davis Gates said it would cost $50 billion.

Some thought it was a joke. But it could cost even more.

Let's dive in. 👀

CTU demands a minimum of 9% base salary increases every year.

This translates to a 41.2% raise by 2027.

And it doesn't include step-and-lane increases.

This provision alone would cost Chicago taxpayers an additional $2.5 billion.

Mar 4 • 8 tweets • 3 min read

🚨BREAKING: Leaked Chicago Teachers Union memo exposes extreme demands to @ChicagosMayor, a former CTU employee.

CTU leaders planned to keep this info private until contract negotiations.

👀 Let's look at what's inside.

@ChicagosMayor First slide:

Automatic pay increases every year that meet or exceed inflation.

This would come on top of existing, automatic pay increases (i.e., step-and-lane).

Also: pension sweeteners via more pensionable salary.

Apr 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

The film version of The Hunger Games had a budget of $78 million.

Chicago Public Schools’ budget is $9.4 billion.

https://twitter.com/d_stieber/status/1647013269389955084

illinoispolicy.org/chicago-public…

Apr 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

Chicago Public Schools has:

💰$9B budget
🏫falling enrollment
🌊flood of covid money
🏠majority of property tax revenue

Yet it still faces a $600 million deficit.

wbez.org/stories/now-is…

Nov 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

NEW: A bipartisan plan to pay off a $1.4B deficit in the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund will spare businesses from a future tax hike

illinoispolicy.org/bipartisan-pla…

Nov 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

NEW: Illinois’ unemployment rate was highest in the U.S. for the 2nd month in a row

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Nov 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

they're scared

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Nov 29, 2022 • 7 tweets • 8 min read

NEW: Teachers union front group @il_fps launches propaganda attack on The Invest in Kids Act, a scholarship program that rescues low-income students from under-performing schools

@il_fps .@il_fps postures as a group representing families. But their pet causes are Xerox copies of @CTULocal1 political literature.

This includes opposition to test-taking and support for defunding the police.

Does that sound more like your average parent or average CTU activist?

Nov 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

Illinois progressives are famously susceptible to recycled and often insincere “workers’ rights” political branding.

Their gullibility in 2022 could undermine one of their biggest legislative victories.

illinoispolicy.org/amendment-1-co…

Oct 19, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read