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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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Five fights a day in a high school building is crazy. But hey, CPS won’t arrest these kids, they won’t suspend these kids, they won’t even punish the kids for fighting. because equity!
What you are describing here more likely has been caused by the courts and congreemen who decreed at least some 50 years ago that education is a legal RIGHT for people of a certain age rather than a publicly supported privilege. In prior generations students were more often expelled from school. In modern times that almost never happens. Instead, they are given alternate attendance arrangements in the same school or a satellite and the resulting alternate assignments for a few days or maybe a week at most. Miscreants who receive this “slap on the wrist” from school administrations seldom “change… Read more »
Hmmmm….what’s the plan? It’s secret. CPS! Nobody wants to play gun battle. Lori will address the root cause, obviously systemic racism.