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“Either teachers’ unions still don’t get how successful public charter schools are, or they are intentionally lying to the public.”
Does your school district have the ability or discipline to use the sales tax revenue to reduce property taxes? Is it fiscally casual or will it find itself forced to use the sales tax as an add-on tax? History does not inspire optimism that property owners will feel any less pinched. History shows the tax burden is the only guaranteed growth.
Potential support from all sides.
By: Mark Glennon* Hey, that’s not our our question or our headline, so chill. It is, though, for a rather serious article yesterday in the right-leaning publication, The Federalist. The left’s response came fast with two pieces in The New Republic, linked here and here, and they added pictures, like the one on the right. I won’t touch this with a pole, so you read the articles and decide for yourself. The fate of the nation may turn on this. I have been wondering, however, when pundits will start analyzing voter response to the background
From her 49th-floor condo at Lake Point Tower, Diane L. Gottlieb oversees a public housing empire that brings her nearly $1 million a year in government-subsidized rent. Gottlieb, 55, has a growing portfolio of apartments — from swanky digs in a Gold Coast high-rise to rundown buildings on the South Side and the West Side — that she leases to dozens of tenants whose rent is covered in full or in part by the Chicago Housing Authority.
While unanimous in their support of a state permit granted to build a new hospital in McHenry County, two of the three members of an Illinois appellate panel have called on state lawmakers to reform or end the hospital permitting process one of the three justices called “nothing more than an additional corruption tax added to the cost of healthcare in Illinois.” Comment: This system has been abused by crony capitalists with both parties for decades. Here’s an earlier background piece explaining: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/crony-chronicles-certificates-of-need/ .
Leaders of Illinois’ public universities are thankful for the money the stop-gap funding bill passed by the state’s General Assembly will provide. But they emphasize that the $600 million is only a fraction of what they need to operate and would not wipe away the consequences of the 10-month state budget standoff. Comment: Hard to tell whether they “need more” because they perpetually say that. And remember that pension contributions are about half of what we put into higher education.
Illinois State Comptroller Leslie Munger issued the following statement Friday following General Assembly passage of legislation to partially fund state universities and community colleges and avoid further cuts and potential closings. The legislation also includes funding for Monetary Award Program (MAP) grants for college students. Governor Rauner is expected to sign the legislation.
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton has made repeated statements that demonstrate his failure to understand Illinois’ workers’ compensation program, let alone the problems that plague the system.
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