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Across the street from the 22nd precinct police station, teachers who live nearby hold regular classes for the refugee children in a community garden; With the youngest learners, one neighbor danced and sang and read books, while retired teacher Laura Amaro read lesson books in Spanish with an older child at a picnic table. Many of the recent arrivals who’ll join CPS will qualify for bilingual education. While the district reported that it has 2,255 bilingual educators, it has a vacancy rate of 2.5% for bilingual positions.
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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Perhaps they could show them the direction home…..
So are they a refugee or merely an illegal alien? Today the Left wants to confuse that issue and thus I never really know what the reality is.