Dave Stieber
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Chicago Public Schools Social Studies/Poetry Teacher, CPS Parent, & Spouse of a CPS Teacher. Nationally Board Certified (NBCT) and Masters in Ed. Policy.
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My new piece highlights how our contract proposals are a love letter to this city. Fighting for our public school system is our love language & this is our love letter to Chicago.
Article: CTU’s contract demands are a love letter to Chicago
via
@TheTRiiBE
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Chicago violence is looting $33 million a year from our education programs to pay for Chicago Police to be in our schools.
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If a Black student had done something wrong would his face be blurred? These white students commit a racist act and then get the privilege not to have their faces shown as well...
Photo, video of Homewood-Flossmoor HS students in blackface spark outrage
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The first family of Chicago. They are so beautiful and I’m so proud that Brandon Johnson is our next mayor!!!
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Chicago bars closing but schools being told to reopen.
A statue of Columbus is protected at all costs by Chicago police but communities purposefully defunded.
These are the policies of our “progressive” mayor.
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“There are no more public schools in New Orleans. I don’t know how else to help folks understand Paul Vallas’s horrific record. There. Are. No. more. Public. Schools. In. New. Orleans. Because of Paul Vallas.”
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Chicago Public School students shouldn’t have to pay to take CTA to get to and from school.
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Imagine if the City of Chicago reacted to generational poverty, disinvestment and inequity in Black and Brown communities with the same priority that the city gives to a downtown, global retail chain store, that is broken into.
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“In the last decade the Chicago Park District has removed 12 of 16 basketball courts from neighborhoods that have doubled and tripled in value, further marginalizing communities facing displacement.”
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Every Chicago Public Schools student (not household) needs a laptop.
Every household needs free internet. Every parent needs a basic income and a moratorium on evictions.
The resources exist to make this happen.
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As educators, a good place to start around addressing the systemic issues with policing in America, would be to demand that there be no police in our schools.
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Imagine working in Chicago, raising your family in Chicago, creating a plan to make Chicago better for everyone and then having someone from the suburbs tell you about your own city. This is Brandon Johnson vs Paul Vallas.
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Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed 53 public schools in Chicago, billionaire Ken Griffin wanted 125 CPS schools closed. When will the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times blame them for youth violence?
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Chicago Public Schools pays $33 million per year to police our students in school.
That’s $90K per day.
We could hire over 365 counselors or social workers with that money, you know to actually help students, instead of arresting them.
#PoliceFreeSchools
@CTULocal1
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A researched thread on why police should NOT be in our schools, anywhere in America.
Police in schools harm Black & Brown kids & students with disabilities.
So don’t come with your antecdotal story about how Officer ___ is so nice at your school...
Research not anecdotes.
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I cannot begin to elaborate on how good this interview is with
@Brandon4Chicago
is. Take the time and watch it. This is the mayor Chicago has been waiting for.
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Educators aren’t burned out, we are demoralized.
We have to pretend that everything is okay in our schools just to get through some days, most days, every day.
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There are 4, I repeat 4 crisis counselors for all of the over 350,000 students who attend Chicago Public Schools.
CPS missed an opportunity to address student trauma.
They couldn't prioritize student trauma. Let's sit with that.
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Last night Chicago Public School teachers voted to go remote for two weeks to keep our students and communities safe.
This morning CPS responds by locking out educators from their school accounts, cancelling school, & telling educators we don’t care about kids
#makeitmakesense
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Just a reminder that the City of Chicago spends almost $2 Billion a year on policing, over 40% of the entire city budget.
If we defunded even a part of that CPD budget, basic incomes for Chicagoans, free internet for every household & laptops for every CPS student could ASAP
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“The most radical thing we can do is love people.” Brandon Johnson in his victory speech as the next mayor of Chicago
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Ken Griffin is one of the people responsible for closing over 50 public schools in Chicago.
THREAD. This email sent by the President of Harvard to all of its alumni is an incredible document. It reveals several of the profound pathological problems of our society and its elite institutions.
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As a Chicago Public Schools parent I have to opt out of letting military recruiters talk to my children every year but Mayor Lightfoot is afraid to make parents opt out of Covid tests.
#LoriLockout
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Chicago politicians/media who are up in arms about a few global retail stores broken into downtown ignore that real violence is when Chicago:
Kills citizens
Closes schools
Closes mental health clinics
Defunds neighborhoods
and always responds by increasing the police budget
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“If you are an enemy of labor, you are an enemy of the people. Last I checked, Chicago is a union town.”
@Brandon4Chicago
#BrandonIsBetter
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In Chicago the pro-police educators are saying, “The officer in our school is a good role model for our Black youth.”
You know who is a good role model? Black educators.
Our school system screened out Black candidates & closed schools impacting Black educators.
#PoliceFreeSchools
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I just walked my own kids through the University of Chicago encampment on the way to their soccer practice. The encampment is beautiful & the demand is simple-life.
Yet a U of C faculty mem. told me the Proud Boys came today &
@UChicago
leaders are getting upset by the students
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The
@UChicago
refused to build a trauma center for years. It continues to gentrify Woodlawn and make Hyde Park unaffordable and can’t even keep this basic promise to invest in the community.
UChicago promised $15 million for South Side violence prevention. It’s given less than $3 million.
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“That’s a false choice. You can make sure we eradicate the root causes that lead to violence AND we also can make sure that there’s support on the front line to prevent violence.”
All of this from Brandon Johnson
Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson (
@Brandon4Chicago
) responds to questions about the violence involving teens vs tourist and damaged property which happened over the past weekend in
@chicago
.
#Illinois
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Stop using the term “school resource officer”. A cop stationed in a school with weapons and the power to arrest students is NOT a resource.
A cop is a threat, that is proven to harm students in schools academically and social emotionally.
#PoliceFreeSchools
#DefundCPD
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In Chicago we can follow the lead of Minneapolis. We can cut ties with Chicago Police in our schools. We can create programs like conflict resolution, true restorative justice, & mentor programs. We can have crises counselors. We can do that with
#PoliceFreeSchools
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Wouldn’t it be amazing if Chicago politicians actually came up with more activities, program, internships, resource and recreation centers for youth instead of continually taking away and criminalizing them?
The money is there and youth have amazing ideas but Lori won’t listen.
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Owing money for a water bill
vs
“Paul Vallas’s actions that resulted in more than $1.5 billion being transferred out of the city’s budget”
are false equaivelencies
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Another way of wording this-
A tax that will only impact 3% of Chicago’s entire real estate sales can help end homelessness.
I’ll pick humanity.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to pour roughly $100 million more a year into programs for homeless services relies on an often-overlooked tax that has generated inconsistent proceeds for decades.
@ad_quig
with a great story on how and whether it might work
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The Illinois Policy Institute is a conservative think tank that keeps trying to portray public teachers, clerks, social workers, counselors—
all school staff as greedy workers.
This is fascinating considering who runs the
@illinoispolicy
institute.
Let’s examine their board🧵
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To the trolls who said horrible things about me, my partner, reported false accusations to the inspector general, tried to get me fired, called my school and anything else I’m forgetting and have blocked out,
I have three words for you-
Brandon Johnson won!!!!
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“The safest neighborhoods in Chicago don’t have ShotSpotter. They have good schools, they have good jobs. They have homes. And that’s what we believe that all 77… areas in Chicago deserve.”
@kennedy_bartley
Article: Brandon Johnson Drops ShotSpotter
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How many media outlets used the term “fiscally responsible” when describing Paul Vallas??? 😂
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There are a few people who unite Chicagoans with our dislike and that list includes; Trump, Rahm, Vallas and quickly and sadly trying to get himself added to that list on a much smaller level is Ja’Mal Green.
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Jacob Blake helped deescalate a situation without police, then after police arrived he was shot 7 times in the back, in front of his children. Instead of offering support to traumatized residents Kenosha WI responded by sending police with riot gear & tear gas
#DefundPolice
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Brandon Johnson has had his platforms for the city on his website for months now.
It’s time for the media to cover and report on his actual plans.
Because the “defund” and “radical” narratives are lazy journalism.
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Paul Vallas is supported by Awake Illinois and the Illinois Policy Institute. Awake Illinois is actively working to ban books (just like in Florida) about LGBQT & Black leaders. The Illinois Policy Institute demonizes educators & wants to privatize our schools.
Paul Vallas=🗑️🤮
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Right now Chicago Public Schools should be hiring hundreds of social workers and counselors to provide student supports during this pandemic.
Then simultaneously creating a district wide virtual therapy platform for student therapy sessions as part of the virtual school week.
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So being in a hate group while being a cop is okay in Chicago….and some wonder why CPD isn’t trusted (also see Homan Square, Consent Decree, Blue Code of Silence, Chicago Torture Survivors, or any of the victims of CPD violence and the subsequent cover ups)
BREAKING: None of the Chicago police officers probed for their ties to far-right extremist groups like the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers will be fired by city officials, a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department told
@WTTW
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In last 8 years police misconduct cases have cost the city of Chicago over a half of a BILLION dollars
AND
you are telling me that our city can’t afford to give free transportation to get our students to and from school everyday?
I’ll strike over this alone
#PutItInWriting
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How dare we, educators, work to make sure our students have homes….
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I also find it ridiculous that he says “far south” to go to a Sox game. For suburbanites like Palos Paul who don’t know, the Sox play at 35th.
And from that same
@WBEZ
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@SunTimes
forum, here's the clip of Paul Vallas saying he is not a 'regular user' of the
@CTA
, but that he rode the train 'downtown' to Wrigley field to the 'Cub game.' 😂
#PaulVallasDoesntLiveInChicago
#BrandonIsBetter
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Based on Twitter comments I found out Tucker Carlson featured a tweet of mine tonight on his FoxNews segment. He called me a “self righteous little fortune cookie” because I dared say educators care about our students. I’ll repeat it, educators care about our students safety.
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This Hyde Park resident of 17 years supports this decision.
The city is moving forward with a plan to house 300 migrants in East Hyde Park’s Lake Shore Hotel next week.
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Literally one of the first things I was taught in my College of Ed. on my way to becoming a teacher is that students can’t learn if they aren’t safe in school
The proposed agreement is fake, just like our Mayor, and does nothing to keep our students safe
I will be voting no.
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Chicago’s Public Educators voted to work remotely to help reduce the Covid spike and to help our students and city stay safe. Chicago Public Schools responds with cancelling class altogether on Wednesday…
#MakeItMakeSense
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Imagine if instead of the freak out about teens planning to gather places, communities embraced youth with activities & planned events at their gatherings. Like surprise impromptu welcoming spaces with musicians, games, store discounts. Making youth feel loved is a better option
Berwyn police are warning the public about a possible large gathering at North Riverside Park Mall on Saturday that may be similar to what occurred in downtown Chicago last weekend.
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Ending ShotSpotter was a campaign promise from Mayor Johnson, it’s proven ineffective and actually slows police response. Many other cities have cancelled it too. It’s a fear tactic and now it’s being spoken about just like how ending cash bail was.
Research finds ShotSpotter slows police responses to 911 calls
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During my 15 year career in Chicago Public Schools I’ve seen how mayoral control of the schools with a hand picked school board is the antithesis of how schools should be run.
Locking teachers out of our school accounts so we can’t teach is just another example of that failure.
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The last few weeks, every time “Awake Illinois” posts about how terrible a library or a school is, shortly thereafter a bomb threat is made. Awake Illinois, run by Shannon Adcock, is a hate group.
@splcenter
please review them so they can be added to your Hate Watch list.
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I voted yes to teaching remotely starting tom.
As a CPS parent & educator I know the district has not provided the resources to keep students safe.
Classes still 30+, privatized custodians quitting
Always lip service from district but never true safety unless it’s demanded.
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When people talk Chicago violence, remember that Mayor’s Daley & Emanuel w/ CEO’s Vallas & Duncan committed acts of violence. They’re violence was closing 193 public schools from 2000-2017, impacting 70,000+ Chicago Public School students
#ChicagoViolence
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Paul Vallas is the literal architect of the school privatization model.
Yet he’s attempting to pull the ultimate educational whitewash. School closings, turnarounds, charter proliferation all things he did or policies he helped put into motion in Chicago, NOLA, Philly, CT, Haiti
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Chicago Public Schools didn’t care about students mental health pre-covid and they don’t now.
That’s why we’ve had to strike for clinicians, counselors, and therapists.
We want social workers for our students, this district responds with giving our students police in schools.
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Also important to note that Paul Vallas is the villain in Abbott Elementary
"Abbott Elementary" unquestionably supports schoolteachers and public education. Brunson, whose mother was an elementary school teacher, was adamant that the series wouldn’t treat the teachers at an underfunded Philadelphia school as the punchline.
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There’s a lot of really depressing events happening right now in our country, but Brandon Johnson being sworn in as the next Mayor of Chicago today is definitely the bright spot!
Brandon Johnson will officially be sworn in as
#chicago
’s 57th mayor this morning.
…
#chicago
#mayor
#inauguration
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To give unhoused Chicagoans, homes, we make the rich pay more and give a tax break to everyone else. That’s a win-win.
It’s simple, vote yes
#BringChicagoHome
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We live in a city that would rather fund literally anything other than our students and schools.
Billions in TIF funds that are supposed to go to schools but instead go to Lincoln Yards, Riverwalk, Navy Pier, basketball stadiums, hotels...
Fund our schools.
#PutItInWriting
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Fact from all Chicagoans: The author doesn’t live in Chicago -so no one cares what this dude thinks
@CrainsChicago
Opinion: I'm still not feeling very optimistic about Chicago
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Not saying they made the threats but the normalization of trying to ban books and intimidate library policy by groups like “Moms for Liberty” and “Awake Illinois” have definitely emboldened those who made these threats against libraries.
All city library branches were shuttered Thursday afternoon because of ‘digital’ bomb threats, Chicago police said.
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“Hyde Park can welcome 300 migrants, who have nothing, who’ve been bussed here by a spiteful politician into a hotel. We can give them basic shelter AND still continue to make our city work better for all residents.”
Written by me a Hyde Park resident
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From 2010 to 2020 Chicago Police misconduct cases cost taxpayers in Chicago over $500 million dollars.
Yet Chicago Public School students still have to pay to ride CTA to and from school…
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Paul Vallas has failed at every job he’s had, lost many elections, now working for the right wing Illinois Policy Institute and writing op-ed after op-ed for the Tribune as if he’s relevant.
Paul Vallas, Illinois Policy Institute, Awake Illinois and Moms for Liberty all are 🗑️
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Just processed that in Nov. ‘24 there will be an election for 10 new CPS school board members AND Brandon Johnson will appoint 11 more. For the 1st time ever it’s possible that everyone will actually be truly invested in kids & have experience in some form working with youth!
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Day 2 of trying to teach my students virtually, only to find that once again locked out of my CPS accounts by Chicago Public Schools and Mayor Lightfoot.
#LoriLockout
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As a striking Chicago teacher I love supportive messages.
But I’m glad the Fraternal Order of Police does not support us. It’s because of the FOP that a Code of Silence exists, that officers rarely get punished for killing people.
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If you are protesting in Hyde Park and if you need it these are 3 safe places to go
-Brave Space Alliance (1515 E 52nd Place)
-Unitarian Church of Chicago 5650 S Woodlawn Ave
-Hyde Park Union Church also open, 5600 S Woodlawn
@SURJchicago
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I’m on strike today for my 2 sons who attend CPS. Their librarian was cut, they’re short one gym teacher, the social worker is beyond over worked & classes are packed. This is standard across the city & they go to a “good” school
#PutItInWriting
#FairContractNow
#CTUSEIUstrike
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A child in Chicago Public Schools with trauma doesn’t get the ability to work daily with a therapist, they get police. We have 4 crisis counselors for over 350,000 students, but 144 cops in schools.
#CopsOutCPS
#PoliceFreeSchools
#DefundCPD
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A call to all white Chicago Public Schools parents, if you decide to keep your children remote then CPS will stop this unsafe plan and maybe even work to improve remote learning. The district is literally catering to whiteness and calling it equity.
Sincerely,
A white CPS parent
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100s of Chicago Police Officers being used to unnecessarily watch over people peacefully protesting an end to genocide at Buckingham Fountain
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I’m really looking forward to when the Chicago media starts to question who funds Paul Vallas and what he owes these rich conservative elites and the FOP when they fill his pockets.
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Absolutely ridiculous. These students called for an end to genocide by advocating for peace and now can’t graduate. This is shameful
@UChicago
University of Chicago is blocking seniors from graduating over their participation in pro-Palestine protests.
Officials won't say what specific acts spurred the drastic move.
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Every time another Chicagoan is dehumanized by the Chicago Police Department, neighborhoods/schools are defunded to pay for CPD’s brutality. The City claims they’ll “reform” CPD, again, which just equals more funding for the police
A thread of payouts since 2010 because of CPD.
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Everyone loves teachers until we dare have the audacity to demand better learning and teaching conditions.
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Trump is not welcome in Chicago
🚨 BREAKING — A group of Chicago organizers have announced a protest against Donald Trump coming to the city for the NABJ Convention at the Hilton Chicago on Wednesday. July 31.
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Paul Vallas not only likes racist tweets but he’s also become addicted to saying unintelligent things and then deleting it after he’s criticized. He deleted this today which insulted Brandon Johnson’s classroom experience and his experience as an elected Cook County Commissioner
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If you are a University President or official calling the police on your own students for demanding peace and an end to genocide you should be out of a job.
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Chicago educators are fighting to prevent schools being opened in person because we value life.
Too many of us know what it’s like to experience loss.
If one student, educator, or exposed family member dies from Covid that’s one too many.
Remote isn’t ideal but grief is worse.
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Literally the only “critics” who “worry”is the real estate lobby.
A one time transfer tax on properties over $1 million isn’t scary. It’s a brilliant way to provide basic humanity and take care of our unhoused Chicagoans.
#BringChicagoHome
Critics worry that Bring Chicago Home — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s request to hike the transfer tax that he hopes will pour more funds into homelessness prevention — might encounter the same pitfalls Los Angeles has struggled with.
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Just spent some time with my mom at the University of Chicago Encampment. The scene is families, little kids with bubbles and sidewalk chalk. Students have created this space. There are supportive faculty looking out for them. The demand is peace.
@UChicago
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The answer is no. Public subsidies to Billionaires needs to stop.
White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf wants $1 billion in public money to help build the team’s proposed ballpark in the South Loop.
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With the $90,000 per day that Chicago Public Schools pays for CPD to police our students, we could have 365 extra counselors/social workers, all schools would get more child expert supports. We could allocate more supports to the schools that need the most.
#PoliceFreeSchools
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Chicago Police has lied for years, CPD has forced false confessions, CPD has assaulted people, CPD has tortured people, CPD has disappeared people.
This is all able to be researched and verified.
#FreeMohawk
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If you now find yourself talking about Chicago’s youth, then I look forward to seeing the history of you advocating for them to have more resources, supports, and investments over the years.
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Presenting Paul Vallas who has NEVER been elected to anything. Appointed to everything, constantly failing and due to white privilege, given chance after chance. Brandon Johnson worked with students everyday, then was an organizer AND then ELECTED to Cook County Commissioner
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Attended a house party for
@Brandon4Chicago
today. Brandon is always 🔥but as teacher & parent this really hit. “If a 12 year old is car jacking that says more about the society than the child.”
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Check out this sign by one of our amazing art teachers. Proud CTU family
#CTUstrike
#PutItInWriting
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The immigration story of America. Federal Govt. arbitrarily decides to help some (based on race/ethnicity) but not others. Then Americans claim “not in our backyard” while other immigrants just become “American”.
Chicago has over 19,000 migrants from Venezuela and over 30,000 refugees from Ukraine, who have gotten very different receptions.
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“Research by Harvard and Stanford universities found Chicago’s 3rd-8th grade students outpaced most similar districts in reading growth from 2019 to 2023, while Illinois was one of only three states whose reading achievement now exceeds 2019 levels.”
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The emotion that I have this morning upon finding out that Chicago Public Schools finally announced being remote is relief with anger. I’m angry for the hours my partner (CPS educator) & I spent talking about what we would do if CPS went through with the ridiculous hybrid plan.
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A reminder that “Awake Illinois” should be considered a hate group.
It also should come as no surprise that they have connections to the Illinois Policy Institute.
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