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On Monday, School District U-46, the state’s second largest district, barred parents from entering a board meeting to talk about the district’s mask policy unless they wore a face-mask. Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski joins Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on Chicago’s Morning Answer to discuss this along with Pritzker’s re-election bid and pensions.
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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.
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.
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Audio and summary
If you bust the Teachers Union then their paid puppets on the School Board become powerless. Bust all Teachers Unions now. School vouchers for all.
Under the Open Meetings Act, it seems a school Board has authority to hold closed meetings (not open to the public) but there does not seem to be provisions for excluding any specific “class” of people (such as by race, sexual preference, political party, or masklessness). GENERAL PROVISIONS (5 ILCS 120/) Open Meetings Act. (5 ILCS 120/1) (from Ch. 102, par. 41) Sec. 1. Policy. It is the public policy of this State that public bodies exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business and that the people have a right to be informed as to the conduct of their… Read more »
Go Parents! Enough with thee school boards
This could become a George Floyd level event, better yet if they attacked the board! Good for the parents.
“Better yet if they attacked the board”
What’s wrong with you? If you don’t like the actions of the school board then work to elect different members. You don’t suggest or encourage attacking them.
I don’t think masks should be required in school nor are they effective but your suggestion is absurd. Both the far right and far left loonies openly encourage disrespecting law and order. Sad.
Yea OK my bad
A summer of violence turned IL deep, dark blue in November 2020. Violence works, unfortunately, but I’m not willing to stoop to that level. I’d rather leave the state first.
There was no violence