Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
“Voters in each affected school district would have to approve the consolidation by a majority vote, so one district could not force another to merge unless residents in each separately agreed.”
Oh that will go well, when Progressive Activists demand that Naperville merge with Aurora, or Highland Park with Highwood, Palatine with Inverness and Park Ridge with Des Plaines. And if you vote against the consolidation, its only because YOU ARE A RACIST.
Merging school districts ought to save considerable money in administrative costs, but the salaries of the superintenent usually rises with some savings there overall but not as much as might have been hoped. Still, surely such merged districts ought to save other administrative salaries. The problem, though, is that every family wants to retain the tax-supported servces thay already have and save money where it applies to other families’ services, meaning that when communities have the mandatory voting about whether merging should happens its often the case that they want to retain control of local schools locally where shut-downs are… Read more »
I read that some suburban school districts in FL have 40,000 students and one superintendent. So they mix all kinds of kids together and the schools aren’t as good. My kid’s elementary school is 0.7% low income/free lunch out of 461 kids. Yes, .7%. The district is 3.0%; while the state is 48% low income. The closest elementary school in the next town over as the crow flies is 44% low income. So yeah, we could merge the two, but I’d vote against it, even if it lowered my taxes, because my school’s resources would be diverted to a lower… Read more »