Teachers Union Pushes Climate Demands in Negotiations - The Daily Allegiant
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- June 23, 2024
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Teachers Union Pushes Climate Demands in Negotiations
(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) - The Chicago Teachers Union is pushing its Green Schools Campaign in negotiations with Chicago Public Schools.
The union wants retro-fitted buildings, solar panels, electric school buses and carbon-neutral programs, in addition to major increases in pay and staffing levels.
CTU President Stacy Davis Gates said it was students who pushed the union to bargain about things not immediately connected to reading, writing and arithmetic.
"They don't want to talk about how the kids are failing in Chicago Public Schools, how minority kids are failing, how people are leaving," Fiedler said.
CPS enrollment is down about 20% since 2010. Taxpayer funding of CPS has increased more than 50% during the same period.
Fiedler explained that the climate demands are CTU's Green New Deal.
"How is any of this going to solve the immediate problem that most of the children, who are Chicago children, cannot read, cannot write, and cannot compute?" Fiedler asked.
Both Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Teachers Union negotiators focused on the union's Green Schools Campaign during their first public negotiating session.
Fiedler said it is a disgrace that the Chicago mayor and teachers union boss are focused on green schools 15-to-20 years down the road.
"Are the kids in Chicago Public Schools right now throwaway kids Brandon Johnson? Are those throwaway kids Stacy Davis Gates? Do those kids matter? They matter a lot," Fiedler said.
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If teachers unions wanted kids to be illiterate while keeping schools open, would they act any differently? California’s just sank a law to use phonics, which evidence supports as the objective best method of teaching kids to read.
Is there any evidence that they in fact actually do want that?
The results.
"They don't want to talk about how the kids are failing in Chicago Public Schools, how minority kids are failing, how people are leaving," Fiedler said. "How is any of this going to solve the immediate problem that most of the children, who are Chicago children, cannot read, cannot write, and cannot compute?" Fiedler asked."
Is there any credible and substantial evidence that the public school teachers and their unions want today's students to be literate and well educated. They appear to be more interested in their pay, benefits, and creature comforts. The lack of decent results from all the money that has been invested in the public education nationwide is a downright shameful disgrace.