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Legislation in Springfield would mandate the National Sex Education Standards for schools. Currently, school districts can opt out and a large majority have. According to Awake-Illinois, only 25 schools have adopted some or all of the National Sex Education Standards, while 548 have opted out.
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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Hmm, don’t you have to be proficient in math and reading to excel in sex education?
Teach kids about sex? I thought we have been having it tens of thousands of years. Nothing has changed, hormones run, and kids have sex. Those were the good old days. Now they tell the kids to just say NO. Never going to happen. It is just too much fun. Women control sex the men are just in it for the ride.
“””—According to Awake-Illinois, only 25 schools have adopted some or all of the National Sex Education Standards, while 548 have opted out.—“””
Pretty clear to me what the overwhelming majority of the “people” want…
Sadly tho, it doesn’t matter to our overlords in the regime…
548 out of 573 districts opt out, so now they want to mandate it. Oh wait, it’s what the voters want… What a crock.
Not a whispher from our republican elected people ( they are not leaders ). Why are we surprised the evil is pushed . Who is stopping it
Since school time is a fixed amount of time, union contract, what classes will be cut to provide time for this? Math or reading perhaps? Thinking on it though I haven’t met an Illinois teacher that was very good at math and had reading skills beyond reading catchy slogans like “we don’t get paid enough” or “we want more” maybe it makes some sense.
And Red for Ed……
Just another piece of candy in the box for the criminal and morally bankrupt, brought to the people of Illinois by criminal legislation!
This is a feature, not a bug. They don’t want kids to learn math and science and English.
“If the state of Illinois passes another mandate, we’re already not meeting all the mandates that we have, because quite frankly there are not enough hours in the school day to do it and still teach math and science and English, the education that our kids need,” Holmes said.”