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"Chicago has a lot of work to do to make remote learning work better, and much of the pressure will be on CPS teachers. We believe they are at least partially the reason Lightfoot decided this week, rather than wait until later this month, to stick solely with remote learning for now, though the mayor denies that. There’s no way the mayor failed to factor in the threat of a teachers’ strike. So now Chicago will be looking to those CPS teachers to lead the way in making remote learning really work."
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 thought the Science would direct when schools would reopen. But the Dictator, Groot, the Sun-Times and the unions are anti-science and want schools closed forever
The richer kids have parents who will put them in pandemic pods that cost $2000 a month, and the poorer kids get minor brain damage from staring at Zoom classes. Suddenly CTU isn’t worried about inequalities or social justice. Are the teachers similarly staying away from restaurants and grocery stores?
Baloney!!!
If it were the parents why are the private schools getting calls from parents wanting their children to go there since the public schools are virtual (for now)?
The CPS parents requesting transfer into Catholic schools are NOT the same CPS parents pushing for CPS’ closure. ???