Hi Paul!

Rejected by voters, but in a few years, will be seen as a Voice of Reason:

• Paul Vallas, policy advisor for IllinoisPolicy.org, said the Chicago Teacher’s Union’s contract negotiation proposals are all moving towards having “more members, higher pay, less work, less accountability, and less school choice.”

   “Clearly the district has been losing enrollment in dramatic numbers. And plus the Union support for Sanctuary cities and unlimited migration,” said Vallas on a recent edition of the Chicago Morning Answer show. “I think this is part of their effort to capture that constituency and to fill the school district’s ranks,” he said about the CTU’s proposed $2000 newcomer package for asylum seeker students. 

  “I think half the schools are far from their enrollment levels and larger schools have only a small percentage of their seats filled. So clearly they’re embracing the sanctuary city concept; it’s a way to increase their enrollment after losing enrollment for about twenty consecutive years,” said Vallas. “ This contract is really all about more members, higher pay, less work, less accountability, and less school choice. That’s the bottom line, that’s what they want, and that’s ultimately where they’re going to end up.”

Chicago voters had a choice....and they (mostly) chose to stay home, leaving Conehead to win with something like the smallest mayoral turnout in history. 

So now the CTU is pretty much negotiating against their former lobbyist and aside from a few aldercreatures who know a bit less than we do about basic economics, Conehead is going to try to give away the non-existent store with the empty shelves.