<p>The Chicago Teachers Union is demanding another $50 billion in its contract negotiations for things like free abortions, migrant services, and LGBT training, all while students continue to score poorly.</p>
<p>The union&#8217;s contract <a href="https://files.illinoispolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/FILE_0918.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demands</a>, which have not been publicly released but leaked recently, include a minimum 9% pay increase every year through fiscal year 2028 and <a href="https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-demands-include-45-days-off-9-new-ways-to-take-off/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more</a> days off.</p>
<p>The average Chicago teacher&#8217;s salary is currently $93,182, according to the Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative nonprofit think tank. It would rise to $144,620 by 2028 under the union&#8217;s demands.</p>
<p>Other demands <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-teachers-50b-demands-includes-pay-hikes-abortions-migrant-accommodation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">include</a> free abortions for public school employees, free mass transit for all public school students and employees, and $2,000 for each migrant to help with things like academics and mental health counseling. The union also wants to <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/03/50-billion-chicago-teachers-union-contract-demands-higher-pay-and-lower-expectations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">turn</a> unused school facilities into homeless migrant housing.</p>
<p>The teachers union also wants school employees to receive mandatory LGBT training and require every school to have at least one gender-neutral bathroom. It also demands the school board ensure no school employee is forced to tell parents about a student adopting a new gender identity.</p>
<p>The budget for Chicago Public Schools is <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/03/10/editorial-stacy-davis-gates-chicago-teachers-union/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already</a> $9.4 billion this year, up almost 30% from $7.4 billion just five years ago. The teachers union&#8217;s current contract expires at the end of June.</p>
<p>The union&#8217;s president, Stacy Davis Gates, defended the aggressive demands.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are asking you to give us an opportunity to tell our story,&#8221; Davis Gates said <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/03/10/editorial-stacy-davis-gates-chicago-teachers-union/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during</a> a speech in March. &#8220;It will cost $50 billion and three cents. And so what, that’s audacity. That’s Chicago.&#8221;</p>
<p>Davis Gates, a vocal critic of private schools, sent her freshman son to a Catholic school last year, sparking outrage from her critics.</p>
<p>In defense of her decision, Davis Gates criticized school choice, blaming such policies for the lack of resources at Chicago’s public schools.</p>
<p>“It was a very difficult decision for us because there is not a lot to offer black youth who are entering high school” in Chicago, Davis Gates <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-teachers-union-president-defends-sending-son-to-private-school-after-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time.</p>
<p>Chicago&#8217;s Democratic mayor, Brandon Johnson, is a former teacher and organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union. He helped organize the union&#8217;s 2012 strike.</p>
<p>The teachers union also donated heavily to Johnson&#8217;s campaign, prompting critics to question the mayor&#8217;s impartiality in the contract negotiations.</p>
<p>Mailee Smith, an Illinois parent and director of the Illinois Policy Institute, called it the union&#8217;s &#8220;most radical agenda yet&#8221; but said the demands were to be expected.</p>
<p>&#8220;CTU&#8217;s leadership has a long history of progressive activism,&#8221; Smith <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6352409450112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News. &#8220;It focuses on power and politics over what&#8217;s best for teachers and students.&#8221;</p>
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<p>She added that the union has fought against linking teacher evaluations to pay or benefits.</p>
<p>&#8220;In fact, in these contract demands they are trying to water down evaluation criteria for teachers,&#8221; Smith said.</p>
<p>Last year, Chicago Public Schools <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?ID2=1709930" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spent</a> nearly $22,000 per student, much <a href="https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023/public-school-spending.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">higher</a> than the national average of $14,347.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in 2022, <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/dst2022/pdf/2023011XC8.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">only</a> 12% of Chicago&#8217;s eighth graders were proficient in math, and <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/dst2022/pdf/2023010xc8.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">only</a> 19% were proficient in reading.</p>
<p>The district serves about 322,000 students across 644 schools.</p>

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