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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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I bet that % is higher. No one asked me or anyone else I know.
When they ban teaching CRT, which they should also ban sex ed in grades K-5.
Kids don’t need exposure to gender ID, gender fluidity, homosexuality, and transgender topics. They don’t have the maturity to understand all that. Let boys be boys and girls be girls until they are older.
What six-year-old doesn’t want to be a pirate? Or a princess?
Well if they don’t teach it, there should be no harm in banning it. Win-win!
Virginia’s model for taking back schools will catch fire here
“OFFICIALLY, we don’t teach critical race theory. We teach all of the same concepts we just call them something else: equity, race hating, white privilege, gender theory for 2nd graders, intersectionality, etc.”