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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.
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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.
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Opens the door? It’s already decided they just haven’t made a formal announcement.
Hey Chicago residents- You allow this crap to continue on and on.
Vote republican next time for a change!
If schools must make the brutal decision to cut students loose, and it appears this will be the Union’s long-term position on their whim, we must quickly start the discussion of alternative education provision. Luckily the internet is full of high quality providers (some practically free, like Khan Academy). However, the additional resources parents will require to keep children at home will take some additional money out of their household budgets. Public Funding of this remote-only scenario will require cuts of current expenses, or ever higher property taxes. At what point are there to be layoffs of school personnel who… Read more »
I just read in Crain’s — literally an hour ago — a “little noticed provision” in the latest law signed by Pritzker that revoked the ability of CPS to close schools for at least the next five years. The reason it is five years is because that’s when the elected school board will come into place. Because this is CTU’s handiwork, I assume that they will also not be able to lay off any personnel. As much as I despise them, you have to hand it to the CTU. They have their act together, they’ve bought the right Democrats (not… Read more »
Here is a study suggesting there is no significant risk of children transmitting disease to adults. Conclusion pasted below:
“Conclusions
Exposure to child care during the early months of the US COVID-19 pandemic was not associated with elevated odds for COVID-19 among child care workers. These findings, however, must be interpreted within the context of both community transmission rates and child care infection mitigation efforts.”
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/147/1/e2020031971?cct=2287/
You guys knows the story about the frog and the scorpion? So a scorpion wants to cross a river but has no way to get across. He sees a frog and asks the frog if he can hitch a ride across on the frog’s back. The frog says, “No! You’re a scorpion, and you’ll sting and kill me. Why would I give you the chance?” The scorpion says, “I promise I won’t sting you. I just want a ride across the river. Besides, we’ll both drown if I did that.” The frog relents and allows the scorpion to get on… Read more »
Hey! Anybody want to back to work? Nay, maybe next year.CTU has a spanking machine in the closet they haven’t used yet. They’ll calibrate it on Lori come Aug 31.
Hmmmm…. When’s the elected school board empowered. Lori might not even care what CTU say.
They like teaching in their pajamas. Has there ever been a lazier group?
ooh fun we get to see the CTU mop the floor with little Lori for another year.
Well, at least the kids can step away from the teachers (average ACT of 18) who can’t understand high school level complexity and the Marxist programming to play Xbox or some such…
Of course it does!