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Last year’s 5,400 student increase brought the total number of English learners in the district above 77,000 as of June 7. Based on that data, English learners are nearly a quarter of the total student population in CPS. The number of teachers designated as bilingual teachers has declined since 2015.
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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Downstate we have an area that contains considerable immigrants. The teachers I know tell me the immigrants are much better students than many others. Their parents apparently involved as they recognize that an education is the way to success for their children. Too bad another Illinois minority group can’t seem to get the message.
Send all these lil’ asylum fraudsters back where they came fron
The disruptions of American children in the classroom, who are here legally, and have a right to the services that their parents pay for, will have a lasting deleterious effect.
Chuckle of the day… IL ed regs state that if a school has 20 or more students of one language group, a bilingual/ESL teacher of that langauge must be hired to provide services to those students. So, a teacher who is bilingual Polish and has a master’s in English as Second Language can teach a group of students of a any language group as long as its less than 20. Ukrainian? Sure! Portugese? No prob! Hmong? Of course! But, as soon as that 20th student moves in, the services she provides no longer count, because she doesn’t speak their native… Read more »
I’m very confident that CPS can continue their unparalleled ability to teach children how not to read and do math at grade level. On their first day of class, these undocumented illegal immigrant children will receive their welcome present, consisting of a t-shirt that reads “I flunked out of CPS!”.
Guv Pigchop hates Illinois students. He wears a man girdle to keep his massive gut under control!
The lack of sophisticated planning and analysis for the downtown area is shocking. So we are going to revitalize LaSalle Street with affordable housing– meaning a whole bunch of people who can’t afford to pay rent are supposed to support downtown retailers and restaurants even though they have no money. And the few people with money who can support retailers on State Street and who are not afraid of getting carjacked or mugged are not going to have access to to the stores. Flush two great streets down the drain. Where are the business groups in Chicago on these ridiculous… Read more »
Progressives have no interest in governance. They only care about ideology. The commies did the same in the early 1920’s. They overthrew the Romanovs in Russia and were like great! We’re in charge now, let’s make this a communist utopia! Except they failed to pay attention to things like logistics or food distribution, so mass famine followed, and millions of people died in the early years of communism. They were, you know, just too busy pursuing class warfare to bother with basic concepts like growing food and transporting it to places where it needed to be! Our commies today are… Read more »