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Mr. Biden is discovering what America’s parents have learned in the last year: Unions run the schools. Take Chicago, where elementary and middle schools were supposed to reopen in March. But teachers, who will be prioritized for vaccines, won’t have to return to classrooms if they have an underlying medical condition or live with someone who does.
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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It’s not really rolling over when he agrees with them.
I have yet to see any evidence that he’s being dragged kicking and screaming.
You mean Communists being pushed to implement communism is a surprise?
Keep ’em closed!!
They teach nothing but hatred…
It is time for the intelligent parents in America to take the curriculum back!!!!!!!!
A toddler could roll over Sleepy Joe, President Harris is runnin’ the show.
Keep voting democrat! You deserve this!
Surprise! It turns out that teacher unions didn’t donate all that money over decades just to be nice. Teacher unions own the Democratic party, and are now exercising the prerogatives of ownership. Apparently Democrats were the only ones who didn’t know that.
Always vote blue no matter who!
How’s blind loyalty to the tax and spend Democrats working out for folks in the South Suburbs as relates to real estate taxes?