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Much like the mayor, most of these new board members will go from outsiders pushing for change to decision-makers who will immediately face consequential choices as the school system enters a new era. And while this board likely won’t put much stock in test scores, the public will undoubtedly hold it accountable for making academic progress. But officials will have fewer resources to draw on as federal pandemic relief funding runs out in 2025, exposing an estimated $628 million budget deficit.
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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IMO a good school board member does the following three things well: 1) Goes to the war with the army he has, making the most out of the least resources. 2) Seeks out concerned parents, many of them, and elevates their power and say so. 3) Drives discipline and accountability from everyone, and constantly measures, measures, measures results objectively. You can’t manage what you don’t measure, with hard numbers. It is time for a board that doesn’t constantly whine about lack of money when the spending per student us what… second or third highest in the world. If the Catholic… Read more »
Rick, in CPS district all the teachers are above average….
Johnson Wipes School Board, Replacing Them With Crooked Corrupt Stooges Of The Chicago Teachers Union
Well, now that BJ has his bulls in the china shop, we’ll see what gets broke and what gets fixed.
“The new school board president is Jianan Shi, 33,……he’ll draw on his experiences as a teacher, organizer and formerly undocumented immigrant to address the system’s shortcomings.”
Crash….bang….shatter…..
There’s no money, no prestige, and no power in fixing it. After 2025, there will be an additional 14 people who get to suckle from that intoxicating teat. That oughta do wonders for the system.
I was thinking about that as I read the article. All elected in an absurd – but oh so Illinois – flurry of gerrymandered-district vote harvesting and ballot box stuffing.
I just don’t think that there’s any chance at all of CPS student’s academic performance improving – not with these sorts of people in control of this kind of system.
And they’re certainly not going to cost taxpayers less while they’re failing at it.
I once knew an immigration attorney, and she told me that it is extremely difficult to go from undocumented immigrant to documented immigrant. Like, if you come here illegally to begin with, there are very limited paths to becoming a legal immigrant. Asylum is very difficult to win, hardship is even more difficult, DREAMER laws havent’ turned them legal yet either, and so on. Other than mass amnesty, the last of which was decades ago, there’s no real path to legal status. So if this person was formerly undocumented, I think there’s something else going on here. Either they got… Read more »