Chicago Bd of Education Pleads Poverty but Budgets Millions for Strikebreaking & Union Busting

[HiPointDem]

Chicago Board of Education planned some strike breaking and union busting. That resolution was called "Resolution Authorizing the Development and Implementation of a Plan to Provide Student and Family Support in the Event the Chicago Teachers Union Chooses to Strike" (Board Report 12-0822-RS10)....The most Orwellian of the Board's resolutions, however, approached paying $24 million for what the Board is calling "Recess Facilitation Services." Rarely has a new locution become so priceless so quickly...

$24 million is about as hard to miss, I'd think, as tumescence in a convent. Yet it looks like it's been missed... If, as Tim Cawley fairytaled again yesterday, the budget "crisis" is "dire", then why did CPS approve Board Report 12-0822-PR2 ("Approve Entering into Agreements with Various Vendors for Out of School Times and Recess Facilitation Services&quot to pay $24 million (and like to go up) for scab services once the strike begins.

Not one of those plutorcratic hacks sitting up there during the meeting (which I covered for Substance) had any problem with "Recess Facilitation Services" (or any of the other union busting nonsense they are now committing to...).

http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=3525&section=Article

[liberal N proud]

1. Priorities - Priorities

And Education of the youth is not one of their priorities.