Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Union president Jesse Sharkey argued that the negotiations were a “cauldron of tension and difficulty” because Mayor Lori Lightfoot and school CEO Janice Jackson began the negotiations by declaring through a legal filing that they had “no intent to bargain with us about whether or when to reopen.”
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
At what point do elected officials in IL realize they are ELECTED and are to represent the best interest of their constituents. Do you think any of our young people are going to stay in this state knowing how they have been treated?
The High Schools really offer a chance to take a look at all options to modernize, downsize and cut cost but nothing will change. Suburban high schools have been offering unique classes live over the internet across districts with evaluations made through secure standard testing on line. Participating schools need only supply a local classroom and a para-professional to proctor the class. My son now 40 took these type classes in the mid 1990’s. This was around the time CPS tried to combine Carver HS with Fenger HS but gang violence halted the effort. The middle class has abandoned CPS!
Cut off everyone from all forms of online classes, like it was prior to March. This will compel everyone to return, everyone, no choice. Then slowly make online be a means to earn extra credit, but it never replaces attendance. As long as the symbol of fear, the mask, is in place, and as long as there exists a means for teachers to stay home, online classes. Then CTU will forever push for permanent semi retirement of stay at home teachers. Remove either the masks or the online classes and their extortion plan falls apart.
It’s past time for Mr. Sharkey to go. The schools exist for the children, not for CTU. If it is indeed unsafe to teach kids in Chicago schools, then we do not need schools or CTU. We could be providing parents with means to seek other alternatives.
End be careful what u ask for as the Vice President of CTU is even WORSE a true believer and I mean a total COMMUNIST
Time for CTU to go!
Time for public schools to go