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Matt Rosenberg joined Lisa Dent on Chicago’s Afternoon News to explain how the constant power struggle between the Chicago Teachers Union and City Hall leadership result in empty, failing schools.
https://wgnradio.com/chicagos-afternoon-news/why-one-third-of-traditional-schools-at-cps-half-empty/
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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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They have to start closing schools. To continue this is insanity.
Think about how depressing this is for a teacher: Go to work in a mostly empty building where maybe one student in your class can read or write proficiently.
Sorry, nixit, can’t go with you on this one. We have already invested way too much in concern about teachers, and not nearly enough in concern about the students.
What kind of person would remain a “teacher” under those conditions? There are jobs at Walmart and Target that offer greater opportunity to “educate” there fellow citizens!
Ah….true, but how are the pensions? Probably nothing like those provided thanks to the socialists who run the CTU, I would bet.
Good point. I’d like to see a side by side comparison of Walmart pension vs CTU pension.
Would a restaurant stay open f so poorly attended? A factory working at 5-8% capacity?
Wow, your comment only posted 4 minutes ago, and already the cowardly downvoter who never makes an argument is on it.
Chicago parents are ditching CPS and the pension parasites that work there
Alex, for $1000 I’ll take the category “Where did Jessy Sharkey kids attend school. “
Does Sharkey have a family? You’d be amazed at how many people who know all about teaching children have none of their own and consider parenthood a nuisance!