Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Davis Gates now stands to lead one of Chicago’s most powerful unions through negotiations of a new contract; the transition to an elected school board and a relentless pandemic. The last contract negotiation resulted in a two-week strike by the union in 2019. SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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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.
If I’m the mayor, this is the time to start thinking and strategizing some multi-dimensional chess. I would basically assume that the teachers will strike, but prepare for it and lock them out. Let them saber rattle and do their thing. I would begin training every administrator and support personnel for classroom work, now. A “temporary” certificate just to get the job done while the teachers are striking, so that schools can continue. God knows there are enough administrators, so we might as well put them to use. I would also build a list of substitutes and teachers that will… Read more »
The mayor should have stood fast with the first strike in her tenure – she didn’t and the kids have borne the fruit of that major error. More than once.
For CPD students to even have a chance, Amendment One must be defeated in November.
Pity the children caught in Chicago Public Schools!
Different person, same Marxist.
Doomed
Let the CTU vultures pick over the carcass of Chicago.
Another Gang Member.
Which one I wonder?
New boss same as the old boss just more MARXIST policies from a union that needs to be BROKEN UP
Almost precisely as I predicted. CORE got 56% of the vote and I predicted 60%. As I said before, it’s very hard to unseat incumbents in union elections. People, including union members, are creatures of habit.
Rigged elections.