homestuck is genuinely pretty good, five nights at freddie’s was scary and interesting with great lore, fortnite and minecraft are harmless, and oh baby you bet your fucking BUTTONS that undertalestill slaps and always will slap wickedhotpussy
I met Seth Everman at a con of some kind, and he came up to me and asked me if I was cosplaying as him bc I was wearing his iconic sweater and sunglasses. I said no and pulled out a furless cat out of my bag that was wearing a tiny Seth Everman hoodie and mini sunglasses, then said, “THIS is Seth Everman.” I put the cat down in front of him and gave it a tiny piano and it started playing it really well and Seth looked so impressed that I started crying.
*democrat voice* AHUM ACTUALLY birthright citizenship cant be signed away by an executive order because that would be a DICTATORSHIP! instead it must be vigorously debated by a few hundred very powerful people who won’t be personally affected by any of this who will vote on it and in the event they get the needed number of votes THEN it will be done for! this is a good system of legitimate governance and i am very smart!
with 100% of districts reporting and 87% of votes nationwide, Smooth Yoda now controls every seat. the 13% of americans that did not vote for him will be liquidated shortly.
oh jesus fucking christ i swear ive seen this thing outside my window at night
Not to sound corny but I to have aslo seen something like this out side my window what confuses me more is that it was above the air-conditioner and our houses windows sit pretty high off the ground to begin with, regardless to say I didn’t enter that room anytime the sun went down for about a month
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On Tuesday, teachers at 15 Chicago charter schools voted 98 percent to authorize a strike as they continue to bargain a contract with Acero Schools, the largest unionized charter network in the city. On Friday, four locations of the Chicago International Charter Schools (CICS) will take a strike authorization vote. And teachers at nine other Chicago charter networks are also in contract negotiations, and could similarly opt to take strikes votes in the coming months.
If no agreement is reached, Chicago could be home to the nation’s first-ever charter strike. Teachers have been inching closer to this possibility for the past two years, during which time eleventh-hour deals have narrowly averted strikes against at least three other charter operators.
That’s a stunning reversal from 2012, when Chicago charter operators bragged that, unlike unionized public schools, charters were unaffected by teacher strikes.
Since then, “Chicago has become the epicenter of charter union organizing in the country,” as Illinois Network of Charter Schools President Andrew Broy lamented in the Chicago Tribune last year.
What’s more, charter teachers are currently bargaining their first contracts as members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), which also represents the city’s 27,000 public school teachers. In March, the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers that represents more than 30 charters in the city, merged with the CTU in a bid to strengthen the hands of both unions.
“Our identity does not derive from our employer, it derives from our work,” says Chris Baehrend, the chair of CTU’s charter division. “I’m not a corporate representative, I’m a public educator.”
CTU-represented charter schools are trying a new tactic as they bargain with 11 different charter operators this fall. Instead of advancing a different set of proposals at each bargaining table, union negotiators across different charter networks are working from a set of common proposals hashed out within the union this spring, says Baehrend. The union even says it proposed that charter operators negotiate as a group, though this has not yet occurred to date.
One goal is to increase pay and benefits across the charter industry, where salaries and benefits are typically below those in Chicago Public Schools.
Jen Conant is a math teacher at CICS’ Northtown Academy, which in 2009 was among the city’s first charter schools to unionize. After seven years at the school, Conant says she makes less than her first-year counterparts at CPS.
Part of the problem is “bloat at the top” of charter networks, she says, including a top-heavy management structure and management fees paid by CPS to charter administrators. According to the union, the charter management organization fees paid to CICS rose to $4.5 million this year, up from $3.3 million last year.
