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Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about how Hispanic students, which make up nearly half of the population of Chicago Public Schools, are largely unable to read at grade level, how Gov. Pritzker can deny out-migration from Illinois despite all the evidence, why the CTU continues to get whatever it wants from Mayor Johnson, and more.
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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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Like the CTU or the CPS cares about education. Money is the only thing that matters to them.
I’m kinda shocked FOP, SEIU, etc & all other public sec unions in city & state aren’t demanding the same no contract negotiation required, COVID sick day/pension sweetener deal as are heros at CTU got?…FYI, somebody’s asleep at the wheel letting free chump taxpayer $ go uncollected!!
similarly I’m also shocked all the city & states public sec unions aren’t demanding COVID disability deals like first responders–cops, fire, etc got??