Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Not Sustainable

It's far past time to gut the CTU and reform CPS spending (click for larger view):


 

The email we got along with the picture says:

  • In 15 years, Chicago has lost almost 90,000 students, spending per student has DOUBLED, property tax revenue has more than DOUBLED and less than a quarter kids can read or do math appropriately.

And they want raises based on these failures. 

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43 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

$33,000 per student? Holy crap! So if I have four illegal aliens attending, that is another $132,000 per year that actual taxpayers need to pay for?

9/09/2025 12:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't think of it of a raise for teachers....
Think of it ......For the kids.

9/09/2025 12:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How many of the 313,000 attendees are Illegal Aliens? 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 or more? Send them back to their own countries and maybe attendance drops another 10% to 20% or more?

9/09/2025 12:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Budget is $10.25 Billion. If 20% of the students are illegal aliens, and they are deported, that should save taxpayers over $2 Billion per year!!!

9/09/2025 12:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But the Commie Socialist CPS Agenda has a curriculum on the manufactured hate for Police and the Phony D. E. I. “Gender” bullshit. There’s NO SUCH THING AS GENDER! It was never a thing. It was always which SEX are you? Male? or Female? But I bet the CPS kids were forced to learn all the 5326 “genders”. These are just a couple of things out of the many fucked up immoral and despicable things taught in public school since who knows when but sure got pushed hard since 2008 - 2024. Hopefully Trump can stop all the sick and perverted shit forced on children by these sick evil fucks!

9/09/2025 12:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Consider leaving Chicago after retirement. I realize people have family, kids, parental responsibilities. However this model is not sustainable.

9/09/2025 12:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Didn’t they just lower the passing scores to make the students proficient?

9/09/2025 12:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hire more with less. Low expectations results in no one having hurt feelings. By dumbing down our children, their future is guaranteed to be criminals and/or on the public dole of welfare, resulting in foreign workers getting the good paying jobs.

9/09/2025 12:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CPS is just like everything else in the city, mismanaged.

9/09/2025 01:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When a union is an intrinsic element of the protection racketeers, aka, crook county property taxers, their essential function is to funnel said property taxes where they are told to.

The Teamsters never were this corrupted.

Ctu memberships are the haven of innate grifter natures. Yes, that means you, "teachers".

9/09/2025 03:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But back here on the ranch, they have slowly defunded the police by not hiring new officers? Is this criminal or communism and politically motivated?

9/09/2025 05:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hopefully ICE will remove and/or scare enough illegals away to reduce Board of Ed attendees by 100k. Shutter the facilities and fire the CTU members.

9/09/2025 05:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They are indoctrination centers, garbage disposals shedders idiots send their children to! Smart people that care about the most precious thing in life, their children have sent the kids to other educational facilities not these pos dumps! They need to be closed look at the delusional mayor a product that indoctrination centers choose to be mayor, talk about completely stupid! When I talk to coppers that send their children to these institutions it’s disgusting, but same coppers have nice vacations fancy vehicles etc..

9/09/2025 05:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

$32k per student? You'd think they'd be getting a world class education. Imagine as a parent having a school voucher where you could spend that $$ at whatever school you wanted.

9/09/2025 06:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hopefully we lose more illegal aliens and all the free breakfast, free lunch, free after school care

9/09/2025 06:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Those represented by the FOP should look at how much they are spending on their lousy PAC fund quarterly. Hundreds of thousands every quarter of Officers’ mismanaged dues filling the pockets of politicians… some of those politicians you ask… that don’t support the police. Why is this happpening and why give money to the guy who spearheaded the Safe-T act??? Enough is enough!!

https://www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisclosure/ItemizedExpenditures.aspx?FiledDocID=OIGinjBQ1QIVzYR3hB7P0Q%3d%3d&ExpenditureType=7PO3RGHF2W%2fsyStv1naW9vd6PLmRT8u2mEDnPt%2bcsAk%3d

9/09/2025 07:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

wow amazing how they steal, I thought this only happens in a thrid world country. Ops my bad we are a third world city. keep it up we doing good so far going downhill.

9/09/2025 07:16:00 AM  
Blogger I Voted For Kamala said...

Unreal.

9/09/2025 07:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Failure Factory" - Chris Propst. It's about Baltimore but the dynamics are the same. Recommended reading.

9/09/2025 07:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How many "Skools" way under enrollemnt with full staffs and even cafeterias serving meals everyday? This model in business never works, consolidation is needed. Even the head of the ctu gates sends her kids to private education as she knows what a disaster this cps system is! what do they concentate on as may of the kids are way below any standards:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2016/05/03/cps-updates-guidelines-for-transgender-students-and-employees/

https://cpsathletics.com/equity-transgender-policy/

https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/03/trump-policies-on-gender-mobilize-lgbtq-students-and-school-staff/

Indoctrination 101! Wow! These are our future!

9/09/2025 08:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about a Consent Decree for CPS ? Full transparency. If everything is as they claim it shouldn't be a issue.

9/09/2025 08:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Show Me the Money said...

Dolton 148 approves contract for interim superintendent at $1,500 per day

Sheila Harrison-Williams will be paid $1,500 a day for up to 120 days, which equals $180,000.00 for a 4 month gig...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/27/dolton-148-contract-interim-superintendent/

9/09/2025 08:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It’s NOT about teaching. It’s about giving out jobs to get a loyal Dem voter in return for that salary, along with a hefty pension, and a Union “donation” to politicians at election time.

9/09/2025 09:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

PS- where is the total EMPLOYEE count that all this money is paying for?

9/09/2025 09:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Superman said...

More money for dumber kids...every year the price tag goes up and the children get dumber., and more indoctrinated...And no one on the horizon is seeking to change the status quo. Here is the first obvious clue that the system is fucked up. "Students that can't read or write are graduating, and teachers are paid nearly 100K a year"
That first one is free. The rest you have to pay ME for. I have listened at work to coppers with young kids tell me that their kids are in one of the "better" schools in Chicago. Right............keep drinking the kool-aide officer. When was the last time your kid read a book?

9/09/2025 09:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Basically the students are getting dumber but the costs to teach them is getting higher

9/09/2025 09:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It’s managed exactly the way they want it to be

9/09/2025 10:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That would buy a lot of one-way tickets to Martha's Vineyard and Ciudad Juarez.

9/09/2025 11:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is only only 18k away from a year at Notre Dame for a business degree.

9/09/2025 01:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does anyone think that 50 percent of Chicago Public School students can recite the alphabet A-Z. My guess 32 percent.

9/09/2025 03:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

By the way, where’s ICE. Medias amped up threats of ICE arrival pending all last week proved what? Answers? Mr President??

9/09/2025 03:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here’s a good example. You must have attended a Catholic School✝️

9/09/2025 03:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CPS should be abolished. The kids would be better off without CPS schools.

9/09/2025 05:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't worry. The mega millions billion dollar jackpot collected so much revenue that BJ Johnson will get his fair share to keep the public school operating in the black. Remember, taxpayer dummies were conned into believing the lotto revenue will help those school systems in need in certain zip codes taking the property tax pressures off the middle class lunch bucket Joes and Janes. Thank you lotteries!

9/09/2025 06:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just great. Chicago Public Schools has achieved a junk bond investment rating. 70% of their budget is salaries. Public school parking lots look like auto dealerships in the north shore with a great selection of Lexuses on display. How do people working nine months out of the year afford such luxurious autos? Junk bonds are the answer. Junk bonds to the rescue.

https://zoomhoot.com/2025/09/05/chicago-public-schools-receive-junk-credit-rating-future-implications-ahead/

9/09/2025 06:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It’s all about the chillrens. Stop complaining, obey your overlords.

9/09/2025 06:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It doesn't matter, as long you feel good the outcome doesn't matter.

9/09/2025 07:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've locked up a lot of those kids ! Fuck them kids !

9/09/2025 07:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And during the next contract negotiations a few simple questions should be asked of teachers negotiating team. What have you delivered since the last contract? What are you going to deliver with this new contract? Drop this sheet on them and then ask why the should be believed.

9/09/2025 09:07:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

33k spent per student multiplied by 313k students equals just over 1 billion. The budget is over 10 billion.. what happened to the other 9 BILLION dollars. Staff pay, pension and medical coverage isn’t 9 billion. This city is so damn corrupt. We need to delve into the contracts.. that’s where the money is. Contracts for equipment, cleaning services, garbage, new air conditioners, chairs, desks, maintainaice, vendors, food etc etc. that’s where the wasted money is..

9/09/2025 11:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They're here

They're there

They're everywhere

So

Beware

9/10/2025 06:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Reduce the enrollment because of ICE? Never. CTU will ensure every one of those ILLEGAL ALIENS are listed on the enrollment roll for the next four plus years. It isn't like they show up anyway.

9/10/2025 08:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, I'm fat and ugly, pretty stoopit too, and incredibly lazy. I barely speak English, where do I sign up to be a cps/ctu indoctrinator ? I already have a red shirt .I think I would be perfect !

9/10/2025 12:36:00 PM  

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