This seems to be the perfect case for name and shame when it comes to the counties/entities refusing the help.
I know you said “I did not make that up” but come on someone made that up, that can’t be real, can it?
Home rule in Illinois is a mess. There is so much inefficiency at the local and county level. Extra taxes, extra costs, extra red tape, just so local politicians can get stick their fingers in everything.
“a Chicago physician can go to one of these home rule counties to perform
heart surgery with no questions asked, but they can’t stick needles into peoples’ arms”
Chicago's teachers union was reviewing a compromise COVID-19 safety proposal on Monday that could allow in-person classes to resume this week, as Philadelphia agreed to let a mediator decide when school buildings could safely reopen.
Chicago Teachers Union delegates approve deal to reopen schools, as opposition among educators grows
In an evening session on Monday, the Chicago Teachers Union s House of Delegates voted 85 to 13 percent in favor of a sellout deal to resume in-person instruction in school buildings, threatening untold numbers of teachers, students and parents with infection and death. The decision sends the deal to Chicago teachers for a membership vote, scheduled to last through midnight Tuesday.
Chicago teachers protesting unsafe working conditions. (Photo: Twitter @CTULocal1)
The agreement, announced by the CTU Sunday evening, would reopen in-person classes for kindergarten and special education classes as early as Thursday, with staggered reopenings for different grades lasting through March 8. The phased reopening, designed to break the unity of teachers by dividing them by grade levels, means that schools will fully open for in-person classes just as the new, more dangerous strains of COVID
The fight over reopening Chicago’s schools is primed for a make-or-break moment Tuesday as its teachers' union is voting on a proposal from the district that would bring students back to classrooms as early as this week.