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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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Something doesn’t make sense here. We have a ridiculous percentage of children that can’t read at grade level in this state, yet we are growing participation in AP classes at a higher rate than any other state. Is this the dumbing down of America in all its glory? What gives?
Yes, I am hoping somebody familiar with this chimes in. Something is very wrong here.
NPR’s reporting is clearly lacking. NPR doesn’t say how much growth was, or the years, or how it compared to other states. Fortunately, the data is available online from the College Board. https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/xlsx/ap-participation-2012-2022.xlsx NPR’s reporting seems to be completely wrong. IL had a 51% increase in test takers over 10 years- as evidenced by the circle graphs in the article, but these are not the highest in the country. Louisiana had a 216% increase over 10 years, Mississippi had a 102% over 10 years, Nebraska had a 56% increase, Nevada had a 51%…. So maybe, NPR was using 1 or… Read more »