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Teachers Union In Chicago Seeks $50 Billion For Abortions, Migrants While Student Scores Decline
The Daily Caller ^ | May 7, 2024 | Mariane Angela

Posted on 05/09/2024 1:45:33 PM PDT by Morgana

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is seeking additional $50 billion for a variety of reasons, including including free abortions, migrant services, and LGBT training.

The union is calling for an additional $50 billion to fund a range of initiatives, including free abortions, migrant services, and LGBT training, according to Daily Wire. These requests are part of the union’s broader push for substantial changes to employee benefits and educational provisions amid concerns over academic performance in Chicago Public Schools.

In its contract proposal, which was recently leaked but not yet officially released, CTU is advocating for a 9% annual pay increase for teachers through fiscal year 2028. This increase would raise the average teacher’s salary from the current $93,182 to $144,620, based on figures from the Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative think tank, the outlet reported.

The union’s demands include offering free abortions for public school employees, ensuring comprehensive mass transit access for students and staff, and providing financial support for migrants’ academic and mental health needs. The CTU also seeks to transform unused school facilities into housing for homeless migrants, Daily Wire reported. Other proposals call for mandatory LGBT training for all school employees and the installation of at least one gender-neutral bathroom in every school. Additionally, the union demands that school employees not be required to inform parents if a student adopts a new gender identity.

Union president Stacy Davis Gates has openly acknowledged the ambitious nature of these demands.

“We are asking you to give us an opportunity to tell our story,” Davis Gates said in her speech in March, Daily Wire reported. “It will cost $50 billion and three cents. And so what, that’s audacity. That’s Chicago.”

Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a former teacher and union organizer, is now navigating these negotiations. His past affiliations with the CTU and the union’s support during his mayoral campaign have raised concerns about his impartiality, according to Daily Wire. Critics, including Mailee Smith, director of the Illinois Policy Institute and a local parent, have called the union’s current demands as extreme but expected.

“CTU’s leadership has a long history of progressive activism. It focuses on power and politics over what’s best for teachers and students,” Smith told Fox News. “In 2022, it handpicked and bankrolled Mayor Brandon Johnson into office, one of their own, one of their own employees, and so this was kind of to be expected. Now it’s taking this opportunity of having one of its own across the bargaining table to advance its most radical agenda yet.”


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: abortion; arth; chicago; education; prolife; teachersunion

1 posted on 05/09/2024 1:45:33 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

It should be obvious by now these organizations are not about “education”


2 posted on 05/09/2024 1:47:07 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Morgana
CTU is advocating for a 9% annual pay increase for teachers through fiscal year 2028

9% annual salary increase plus increased benefits, WOW

3 posted on 05/09/2024 1:48:35 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Morgana

I don’t recognize much of anything about our nation or our culture anymore.


4 posted on 05/09/2024 1:49:27 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: 1Old Pro
CTU is advocating for a 9% annual pay increase for teachers through fiscal year 2028

I'm so far beyond tired of hearing about how teachers working 9 months out of a year are underpaid.

5 posted on 05/09/2024 1:52:28 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Morgana
LGBT training

I thought people figure that stuff out by themselves.
6 posted on 05/09/2024 1:52:54 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: Morgana

I think $50 billion is more than the GDP of several Third World countries.


7 posted on 05/09/2024 1:59:50 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Morgana

They’re not teachers, they’re political activists.

Return to the system that works in America.
Hire only married teachers who live in the district that they teach and have children in the school’s district.
That’s how it worked before the political left created the Department of Education, and it worked great.
No indoctrination, no teachers assaulting students or engaged in drugs of any type.
Return to what actually works, and ignore the yelling and screaming from the creepy sexual deviants.


8 posted on 05/09/2024 2:11:41 PM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: Morgana

The CTU will get everything they demand - The Union completely controls Chicago.


9 posted on 05/09/2024 2:29:49 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: Morgana

I would expect nothing less from a union of government employees.


10 posted on 05/09/2024 2:43:43 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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11 posted on 05/09/2024 2:51:11 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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Wait, What?

According to their own website Chicago Schools had 323,251 enrolled students last year. (I did assume that it would be more, but that is what they report)

Fifty billion dollars divided by 323,251 students works out to nearly $155,000 (go ahead and check my math) PER enrolled student.

You could send two students to an ivy league University for that.


12 posted on 05/09/2024 3:14:23 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Morgana

The Chicago Teachers’ Union is not a union as normally understood, because the union bosses and the management they nominally oppose are mostly the same people.


13 posted on 05/09/2024 4:45:47 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: PGR88

Bkmk


14 posted on 05/09/2024 7:07:28 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: Morgana
That's not all they want. An update...

CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION DEMANDS PARENTS BE KEPT IN DARK ON CURRICULUM

15 posted on 06/02/2024 5:31:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Morgana

My answer to this is:

Get the Hell out of Chcago.


16 posted on 06/02/2024 5:44:04 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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