Performative Theater
- Chicago Public Schools sent layoff notices to 1,458 teachers and other staff Friday due to enrollment shifts, school-specific needs and other programmatic decisions, the school district said.
And what does it all mean?
CPS says most of the laid off staff will likely find positions at other schools within the district.
Overall, CPS says it plans to spend about the same amount on school-level staff as last year, and these actions do not help the school district close its $734 million budget gap.
So nothing at all.
How about closing a dozen underutilized schools, lay off those people and sell the buildings? You'd close the budget gap overnight.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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What and lose all that wealth generated from union dues? Can’t have that. The union wouldn’t stand for sensible cost reductions.
Where all the LIBTARD moron screeching idiots??? Layoffs?? We better see some democRATS like that witch Maxine Waters SHOWING UP AT CPS’s door step!!! THATS WHY YOU SCUM LIBTARDS PROGRESSIVE democRATS have a 20% approval. Nobody believes your crocodile tears!!! You’re pathetic!!!
They might as well create a department of ballot harvestors, as scatter their ballot harvesting minions amongst various 'positions'.
now the 17 year olds in grade school are hoping they get a teacher that will still give them a passing grade
Just the elimination of extra hires from the COVID scamdemic. Fatso McPhuckster is more worried about the 40 billion that is getting slashed from Illinois Medicaid funds.
No strike clause against the teachers union for their monopoly would also be a great start at reforms!
Just like Police and Fireman are NOT allowed to strike and what is fair for us is also fair for the teachers unionand their bullshit demands!
Sell the buildings? Hell No! CPD and the City think they have a goldmine in that real estate. They think like the Archdiocese of Chicago does. Hang on to properties forever. Hell, they don't pay taxes on them so what's the loss?
Hey, look at all those low enrollment schools. Many with barely 20% students.
Time to consolidate those schools, layoff the excess staff.
Hearing the sound of the turlet flushing after a log is dropped off
80% of the CPS employees laid off already landed new positions within CPS, the others were ones CPS wanted to rid themselves of and couldn't find a way other than from layoffs.
As off 12/2024, CPS had over 7200 SECAs, 1200 too many with most hired with COVID money. Once CPS pissed through that money, the SECAs' days were numbered.
Also, there was a glut of SPED teacher positions, Lane Tech and Mather laid off 7-9 of them.
Next big education scam is keeping of B-Lingual teachers over tenured teachers with the same content area certification.
Most interesting is who'll replace Ruchi Verma as head of CPS Law as she resigned effective August 1st. Oddly, Verma's husband stays on as head of CPS Talent. Nepotism, the CPS Way.
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Through our Driving a Cleaner IL program, we're replacing older diesel-powered buses and providing the charging infrastructure for new buses.
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Maybe, possibly or the slim chance the unused, underused schools could be sold off? I'm Catholic. Look how Cupich is selling off well attended Catholic Churches and closing schools. Maybe Stacy skipped a grade or two.....
"Everyone knows that the key to educational success and strong communities is to have large school buildings that are fully staffed by high priced union labor. Whether or not there are students in these schools, and whether whatever students are there are actually learning anything is irrelevant. It's the school buildings and the employees that are important." - Mayor Brandon "Bonehead" Johnson
CPS teachers have always sucked. Lived in oak lawn or evergreen park. Not in city while working for CPS. 5 hr work days with hr and a half lunch to go shopping in suburbs. Then straight to the bar. Drunks. And embarrassing as a wife or girlfriend. Yikes. Marry a cute nurse.
Double dipped Choclodyte conehead would have passed them with flying colors.
They all live on the north side.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
I have a story. I was a tech that went into alot of schools, public and private. I went to a CPS school on the East side that took up a city block in a residential neighborhood. They had 2 classes with students! That's it!!! Fast forward, I was over by a friend's house and a neighbor came over. We're having a beer and talking about the CPS deficit and taxes. I brought up that story about the East side school. The neighbor went nuts!!! Saying we can't close schools. Turns out he was in the CPS union as a maintenance guy! He doesn't talk to me anymore... 😆
Just like rearraigning the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Catholic Schools in Chicago are the only real educational institutions left in this town. I taught at the college and university level for 10 years and had graduates of public and private schools in my courses. The difference was great and noticeable. Chicago public schools are nothing but a warehouse until the kids reach 18.
If you get LINK/SNAP, are on welfare, get SSI for some ailment, have Section 8 etc for more than 18months... you should be mandated to home school your kid(s). 1 1/2 years shows a pattern of no interest in working, so now you school your offspring, hell... you're home all day anyway. CPS enrollment would be decimated and then they could fire the teachers/staff/employees no longer needed and consolidate schools and sell off the ones closed. Even if CPS had to pay for the school transit bussing to consolidate, it would more than pay for itself. Serious medical ailments generating SSI could get a pass... but SSI for asthma or high blood pressure (especially when you weigh 300+ Lbs) you are stuck teaching your kids. Our neighbors and us used CPS for grammar school (N/W side) and only had one nutty libtard teacher (lasted one year and gone) and then for High School went private. Can't complain about K-8 except that we constantly had to have fund raisers for crap that should have been paid for by our crazy northside property taxes. Glad to be recently retired from CPD and especially glad to be out of Chicago/Cook County/Illinois. Can now finally exhale in a Red State.
This all theater, today we're talking about CPS theater. Everybody has a part to play. The teacher receives a salary, Union folk too, contracts for Fed money and the parent just wants to hear and believe their child is a genius. Most want to see A's on the report card. They do not want to hear their child's brain is being fried by the cell phone and they definitely do not want to probe further to find out that their child can't read or do fractions. This not just at Mather, but all schools; especially at the "elite" schools like WY. At the elite schools the parents are even more adamant that their children receive those fake A's. Your children get fake A's and we get fake MDs, fake engineers, poor food and fake medications.
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