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I always knew Brandon Johnson would be a failed mayor but today’s unhinged press conference in which he berated reporters, spewed ridiculous conspiracy theories, & skirted accountability for the mess he and Stacy have created took his failures as mayor to a new level.
#twill
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These 4 wealthy and well-connected private school parents fought to keep more than 9,000 low-income and working class children from accessing the same schools their kids attend.
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@bariweiss
is doing some of the best commentary and journalistic work around today. The use of her substack and podcast,
@thehonestlypod
, to highlight voices, hers and others, has offered real substance, often counter or juxtaposed to the dominating media narrative.
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“She [Kim Foxx] has led with integrity. She’s been part of the reform that’s needed.” -Brandon Johnson
Disqualifying.
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Let’s stop with this nonsense that Brandon is just a humble teacher.
He taught long enough to get tenure and bolted. He’s spent the majority of his career working for politicians and the CTU.
Brandon is a union lobbyist and paid mouthpiece. Nothing more.
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“Nothing illustrates the perversity of the “equity” agenda and its hostility toward the exceptional and exemplary quite like progressive officials’ efforts to cut overachievers down to size for the imagined benefit of everyone else.”
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ⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴
@dzakowski
@nickgillespie
@citizenstewart
@reason
@schoolchoicewk
@LisSnell
@DeAngelisCorey
@CatoInstitute
School choice is not a good idea. It has failed everywhere. It is good for a few, bad for most. We can't solve our social problems with failed ideas that produce bad education.
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Tell me you’re an elitist without telling me you’re an elitist.
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🧵You likely won't be shocked to learn that the 2 ladies behind CTU front group, Illinois [Teacher Union] Families for Public schools have BOTH exercised school choice for their own children while working to deny the same right of other peoples' children.
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Brandon Johnson has been an elected official since 2018.
When was the last time you heard him or his CTU bosses utter a single word about the literacy and math crisis in Chicago?
He and CTU don’t care so long as their contracts continue to balloon. 🤐
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“If you’re the teachers union, you’re celebrating tonight. I think if you are individuals in the city who commit crimes, I think you’re also celebrating tonight,” Hoffman said.
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Our city desperately needs leadership. And also, where are the parents?!
Apparently, CPD has closed off the street at North Avenue and LaSalle Street due to a large group of teens blocking traffic and jumping on cars.
It's a school night, but.......
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We’ve created a culture so toxic that those in positions of power are going out of their way to accommodate and shill for a fringe ideology DESPITE knowing that it is “demonizing” and racist.
Thank you
@fairforall_org
for continuing to shed light on this. More need to speak up.
Grace Church says Paul Rossi misquoted him. It doesn't sound like it. Listen to these clips:
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@PaulVallas
will be the mayor for all Chicago. Streets will be safe again. Children will learn again. The city will rise, again. Let’s do this!
#ChiMayor23
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Disgusting behavior. Every political “leader” in Chicago should disavow. No more explaining away with talk about “frustration from disinvestment.”
These are criminal acts being conducted by careless teens. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Even if this 7-11 has insurance, it was looted, looting is a crime, and the looters deserve to be demonized and prosecuted.
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School choice has brought Republicans and Democrats in Illinois together. 46 lawmakers have signed onto a proposal to make the Invest in Kids tax credit scholarship program permanent.
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Politics first. Education after.
Chicago Public Schools plans to delay the start of the 2024-2025 school year because of the Democratic National Convention.
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Tell me you're not really pastors without telling me you're not really pastors.
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Complete gaslighting from the US Secretary of Education.
Thank you
@rweingarten
and 1.7 million
@AFTunion
educators for supporting getting back to schools safely & quickly.
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CPS will spend $9.5B this year. A decade ago, CPS spent $5B.
What's changed since then? Reading and math scores have plummeted. Some 80k+ students have fled CPS. CTU contracts have ballooned.
Once again, Brandon Johnson's position is good for the CTU but bad for kids.
At
@chalkbeatCHI
, we've parsed the mayoral candidates' education platforms for weeks.
I recently zeroed in on one key issue: school choice.
To Johnson, Chicago's system of choice helped trigger its enrollment & other woes. Vallas says more school choice can help fix them. 🧵
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It’s not teachers who are testing their clout, it’s CTU political leadership.
Many rank and file teachers don’t support their dues being stolen and put behind CTU employee, Brandon Johnson.
That’s why they’re suing Stacy Davis Gates and Jackson Potter.
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This is feast or famine for the CTU. They’re desperate. And desperate people are dangerous.
They’ve stolen millions from their members to fund their lobbyist and mouthpiece, Brandon Johnson.
He wins…CTU gets the key to City Hall. This cannot happen.
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Defund the police!
*except for my personal protection unit*
Meanwhile, defund the police mayor, Brandon Johnson has fully funded the units that oversee his mayoral detail to the tune of 149 officers.
While the 16th district gets 14 total officers for a July Saturday night, Brandon Johnson gets 149 officers just for himself.
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Pedro bent the knee almost entirely when Brandon assumed office in an effort to keep his job. He went to Springfield singing kumbayah with Stacy. He went to events with Brandon.
They still want him out. Let this be a lesson: never bend to the CTU.
JUST IN: Mayor Brandon Johnson told Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez on Thursday that he wants the embattled schools chief to leave his position. Martinez did not immediately resign.
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Let’s stop pretending CTU cares about children and their education.
NEW: The Chicago Teachers Union is demanding an annual pay raise of 9% or the Consumer Price Index — whichever is less — and won’t rule out a strike, even with one of their own in the mayor’s office, CTU President Stacy Davis Gates said Thursday.
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It is alarming to see the rise in juvenile-related violence in Chicago but we shouldn't be surprised. We closed the schools, banned recreational sports & activities, and shuttered churches for extended periods of time.
New habits have been developed and they're not good ones.
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I have absolutely zero patience for the “thought” pieces suggesting we simply move on now that we have the evidence that shows forced school closures were catastrophic for student learning.
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Translation: we extorted the federal government so they would pay to train our future *dues-paying* members.
Very COVID-19, emergency friendly.
In plans submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, states are detailing how they will use COVID-19 relief funding to recruit and retain teachers, including strengthening the teacher pipeline through "Grow Your Own" programs.
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I'm a little lost as to what we're "celebrating".
-70% of 8th graders didn't pass the Algebra 1 exam
-75% didn't meet state math standards
-70% didn't meet state ELA standards
-Fewer students met SAT standards than at any point since at least 2017
WATCH LIVE: Gov. Pritzker celebrates release of 2022 Illinois State School Report Card
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While IL families were fast asleep,
@SpeakerWelchIL
and the Democrat supermajority in Springfield pulled out every trick in the playbook to ram through a tax increase in the wee hours of the morning to fund
@JBPritzker
’s runaway spending scam so he can play president.
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Brandon Johnson has spent the vast majority of his career working for politicians, the teachers union, and being a politician himself.
He is not a teacher. He’s just a union mouthpiece that Chicago doesn’t need and certainly can’t afford.
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Ah yes…the gas stove ban. That’ll definitely make sure kids can read and do math.
CTU priorities ⬇️
“[…] the gas stove ban could be one of Johnson’s 1st progressive legislative victories in the new yr after he passed a bundle of labor-backed initiatives last fall: placing
#BCH
before voters, eliminating the tipped subminimum wage & requiring more PTO
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Nothing says “I Love Public Schools” like sending your own kids to private school,
@cassiecreswell
.
Why deny low-income families the same opportunity?
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🚨 Absolute chaos in Chicago 🚨
CTU pressures former employee turned mayor, Brandon, to fire his board bc they won’t do what CTU wants.
Entire board resigns on a Friday afternoon.
It's a stunning development that clears the way for Mayor Brandon Johnson to appoint a new board that will follow his orders — fire CPS CEO Pedro Martinez, land a contract with the Chicago Teachers Union and take a loan to cover a city pension payment and the teachers’ contract.
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But Stacy and Jackson want even more of taxpayers’ money. Hard pass.
Chicago Public Schools can’t find $23M worth of laptops, iPads and other electronics. 77 thousand devices were reported lost or stolen in the 2021-22 school year.
@WGNMorningNews
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It is an absolutely relevant question to ask CTU prez
@stacydavisgates
: does she send her own child to a private school?
CTU is actively lobbying ILGA to depose of scholarship program for poor kids to attend private schools.
Is she a hypocrite?
@chicagotribune
@CrainsChicago
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More stupidity out of Chicago.
Chicago speed limit lowered to 25 mph?
That's the goal of an ordinance Ald. Daniel La Spata is introducing today. It would also allow Chicagoans to submit photos of cars violating bus & bike lanes — a pilot that mimics Bike Lane Uprising, but would give drivers real tickets.
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Imagine that.
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Why are Democrats hellbent on ripping away opportunities for poor kids?
U.S. House Appropriations Committee:
"the Committee expects the Administration to phase out the Opportunity Scholarship Program in fiscal year 2023."
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Illinois’ most powerful teacher unions, who have kept schools closed for the last year, are working hard in the 11th hour of legislative session to kill opportunities for poor, minority families to seek schools that work for them.
#ScholarshipsNOTLoopholes
#twill
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In moving away from student-based budgeting, CTU forced CPS to underfund the highest-performing schools in the district in order to fund empty buildings that have failed students for decades.
Great job,
@PedroCPSCEO
!
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These people are hellbent on robbing an entire generation of students of any path to upward mobility.
BREAKING: Chicago Teachers Union is polling its membership asking if they would "support a district-wide pause and temporary shift to remote learning."
They're also asking if membership would be willing to "participate in a city-wide work stoppage."
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It’s eye-opening to see the reaction to
@Wirepoints
report of ISBE data showing the list of schools where not a single student is reading or doing math on grade-level.
The brushing off of these facts is exactly why we need
#schoolchoice
. These kids deserve educators who care.
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One day, I want journalists to ask every person who works so hard to oppose school choice why they won’t send their own kids to the schools they’re asking legislators to keep low-income kids in.
Nothing says “I Love Public Schools” like sending your own kids to private school,
@cassiecreswell
.
Why deny low-income families the same opportunity?
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Former CPS CEO,
@janicejackson
, delivering a knock out blow to CTU’s plans to gut the city’s selective enrollment schools.
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The biggest users of private school choice in Illinois are PUBLIC school union bosses.
NEW: The government relations director for the Illinois Education Association, the state’s largest union, sends his kids to a private school.
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Does it really matter how many Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo books you mandate into the curriculum if, at the end of the day, a strong majority of kids at the school won't be literate enough to read them anyway - especially Black and Latino kids?
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Bad night for
@ChicagosMayor
, CTU, and the ultra-progressives who mistook a very narrow win last Spring for some kind of revolutionary mandate.
Next up, elected school board + Stacy Davis Gates’ “$50 billion and 3 cent” contract.
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Shocker! (Or not)
87% of the $77M spent by IL’s largest teacher Union last year went to activities besides directly representing their members.
@illinoispolicy
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“My students would get frustrated…I didn’t offer any test prep…I didn’t issue a lot of homework. That was my way of rebelling against the system.”
-Brandon Johnson on his brief stint as a teacher
Putting politics and ego above the interests and education of kids.
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Well now that the extortion payments have been made...why not 🤷🏽♂️
Breaking News: Randi Weingarten, president of America’s second-largest teachers’ union, plans to call for a full reopening of schools for the next academic year.
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Galling to see the celebration of a governor’s actions proudly denying access to a quality education for Michigan’s students.
Thank you
@GovWhitmer
for vetoing the latest DeVos effort to siphon public money away from the classroom. Voters continually reject using public funds for private schools, and the veto of HBs 5405-05 and SBs 687-68 reinforces the will of Michiganders.
#MichEd
#MILeg
#Vouchers
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Chicago is a joke.
Johnson casts deciding vote as City Council approves cease fire resolution
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Most unpopular mayor in America! Congrats CTU, Stacy, Brandon, and Jackson.
Great work!
Chicago Mayor B. Johnson is underwater in all parts of the city. And for the first time since we have been polling, the CTU has a negative favorability rating, citywide at -10%.
CTU is no longer the outsider group fighting City Hall. Now, the CTU is City Hall
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Says the guy who lives in Evanston.
Read it and weep, Chicago. I will not vote for Vallas for MANY reasons. But my daughter’s life and personal autonomy is enough for me. Oh, also, truth still matters and
#BrandonIsBetter
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Great job to teacher unions everywhere.
ACT scores for the class of 2022 hit a 30-year low with an average of 19.8 out of 36.
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All this will do is increase educational stratification. Those who can, will enroll in private school. Those who can’t will be left to attend neighborhood schools that can’t meet their intellectual needs.
Another win for Team EqUiTy.
Chicago's progressive Mayor Brandon Johnson announces plans to ax Windy City's high-achieving selective-enrollment high schools to boost 'equity' despite promising not to during election campaign
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Just not her kids.
Reporter: “The current governor says that kids are trapped in failing schools. He says ‘it’s time to free these families.’ Does he have a point?”
Arizona Democrat Katie Hobbs: “There are always going to be kids who are stuck in these schools.”
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Raise your hand if you not only expected it but have spent the last 2+ years talking about it 🙋🏽♂️
New data suggest that the damage from shutting down schools has been worse than almost anyone expected
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All of a sudden Jackson is interested in what faith leaders have to say. Couldn’t be bothered when faith leaders asked his union to stop opposing a popular scholarship program that ensured working-class kids got to attend the kinds of private schools Stacy sends her son to.
Chicago Southside + Westside Faith Leaders Stand in Solidarity with
@CTULocal1
“We stand with CTU demanding a fair contract that ensures every student has access to the quality education they deserve.”
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CTU VP: why are y’all upset about destruction to your personal property!?
Pathetic.
How about the moral panic story about how much worse white youth behave at Pitchfork, Lollapalooza or Riot Fest? They won't cover that one. How is footprints on someone's 2024 Jeep a story?
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Put another way: “students and families, find a seat in the back.”
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“…a loss for Johnson would represent a significant setback for CTU that could embolden politicians seeking to curb the union’s power.”
YES.
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More than 100k Black children lost their schools when you kept them closed for more than a full year during COVID. In fact, you said it was racist for the Black women leading CPS to reopen schools.
Ally? No, opportunist. And all at the expense of Black children.
When nearly 20K Black children lost their schools to closings y’all said what, exactly? Miss me with maximum democracy, sir.
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For over a year, families pleaded with their local school boards to reopen schools. Now, after schools have largely been reopened, Randi and her well funded political organization are launching a 7-figure ad buy to throw it all in families’ faces.
Since the beginning of the pandemic we've worked to make sure school buildings can reopen safely. Between all that work, vaccines and Biden's Rescue Plan, we're looking forward to being full time in person in the fall.
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Stacy and Brandon majorly miscalculated in pressuring the entire CPS board to resign over the payday loan scheme. This may have been the last significant “victory” they’ll achieve before their self-instigated downfall.
We’ll look back and remember this as a turning point.
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Meanwhile, literacy and math scores are as low as they’ve been since 2003ish.
Round of applause for the system.
Congratulations to Chicago's Class of '23 for breaking CPS' graduation rate — up to 84% from 2013's 59%.
It's a milestone that couldn't have happened without the hard work of the students, teachers, and families.
Let's build on this for the Class of '24.
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All of a sudden, Brandon is a fiscal hawk.
This is the same guy who refuses to tell his union bosses the city can’t afford their bankrupting contract.
Johnson on the rickety relationship he's had with City Council. "Maybe things ran smoother when they sold off the parking meters. Maybe things went smoother when they (bankrupted) the city and left me with the bill."
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Here’s the thing about Jackson and Stacy…they’d rather spend their time and the union’s resources to solve every other problem that ills society rather than the one they’re actually responsible for…EDUCATION.
@IlliniJen
Hmmm, more important than making sure our students aren’t sleeping on the street or in shelters or facing harm is how they perform on a test? The cruelty implied by that prioritization is stunning.
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Imagine that…
School choice is wildly popular among literally every single demographic except white progressives.
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Shocker! Teacher union front groups in Illinois line up to yank away scholarships for poor and working-class families. And of course they go to their dried-up well of misinformation to make their case.
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This what happens in schools run by CTU radicals. Learning takes a backseat to calls for misguided activism.
CPS students are staging a walkout at noon today in solidarity with Palestine.
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Activists who won’t send their own kids to the neighborhood public school shouldn’t be forcing other people to send their kids there either.
Every parent, not just those in the well-educated activist class, should get to choose the best school for their child to succeed.
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Even in a Blue state like Illinois, we’re finding that legislators are not interested in going back to their communities to explain why
#schoolchoice
was taken away this year. We have momentum thanks to our schools and families. Stay tuned!
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What an embarrassment.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona:
"I think it was President Reagan who said, 'We're from the government. We're here to help!'"
Here's the actual quote:
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."
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Directly from the resolution:
“Transition away from privatization and admissions/enrollment policies and approaches that furthers stratification and inequity in CPS and drive student enrollment away from neighborhood schools.”
Idk Stacy, you tell me what this means then.
…inaccurate and intentionally misleading information. Gee. I didn’t know that was a thing. 🤔
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This is a moronic take.
I mean, of course. Instead of paying the fair share of taxes that would bolster traditional public schools, billionaire philanthropists get to decide which schools are funded.
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Another Summer of Joy™️
Recap of downtown Chicago tonight of what the "teens" were doing tonight:
- 3 shot
- Multiple instances of shots fired
- People robbed
- Others maced
- CTA employees beaten
- Attempted to break into the Art Institute of Chicago
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Turns out if you can’t do the basics required of governance, no one cares about your progressive utopia.
Progressives were "not ready" for the Mayor’s Office, Ald. Jeanette Taylor said.
"We look real stupid right now."
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Happy Independence Day from the best looking pup in Chicago! 🇺🇸
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I spoke to
@John_Kass
about the “convenient equity” problem opponents of
#schoolchoice
seem to have. If we want true equity, the conversation has to include choice in education.
#NSCW
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Starting to think Randi enjoys getting ratio’d...
The politicization of this virus continues to encourage people to deny science and logic, putting lives at risk. This is where we need folks across the aisle to help out.
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The point is...yet again we have people, funded by teacher unions, who are actively working to take away educational opportunities from families who don't have the same ability to send their kids to a school that will work better for their needs. 🧵/end
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"...in Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) has also unveiled a budget that raises the state tax burden for households while reducing schooling options."
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Brandon Johnson is the worst mayor in America and it has nothing to do with him being Black. Stacy DG is the most careless union leader in America and it has nothing to do with her being Black.
Both are extreme con artists who race bait because that’s all they have.
Johnson: Detractors are making the same argument as the confederacy when it comes to public education "the same people said 'fiscally irresponsible.'"
@fox32news
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Who’s going to tell her?
Why do “school choice” advocates never advocate eliminating school district boundaries/funding schools by local property tax and allowing poor, Black students to attend white, wealthy schools in neighboring municipalities? They don’t really want choice, just privatization.
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Kicking off The State of Black Education session with some power players!!
@citizenstewart
@kymyona_burk
@shakamitchell
@selmekki
#EIE21
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Some personal news...
I've joined
@SchoolChoiceNow
to lead our work to elect more
#schoolchoice
supporters in Illinois and secure policy wins for the long haul.
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“It [institutional racism] flourishes because teachers unions spend fortunes to preserve their destructive monopoly on America’s public school districts.” -
@Paulvallas
@John_Kass
@Tommy_USA
@DeAngelisCorey
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So I say, show me a school's literacy rates, particularly for Black and Latino students, and I'll tell you how much they care about "equity."
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COVID learning loss was a policy choice. Catholic schools reopened and stayed open. Public schools failed to reopen as a result of teacher unions and willing “progressives.”
Can you guess which students didn’t have a choice…
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This quote is as stupid as it is lacking self-awareness.
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