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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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As Illinois student populations shrink & birth rates decline, could one assume states new “3 hour rule” is dreampt up by teachers unions who want put private daycare operators out of biz so they can setup public funded daycare at astronomical cost (like CTUs doing in Chicago)….or maybe those are carnival barker thoughts?
“dreamt up by teachers unions who want to put private daycare operators out of biz”
You’re not the only one I have heard say that.
I’ve heard it too. The typical pointy wire will make up anything so decent chance you heard it here. Facts don’t matter. I heard elections were stolen too.
No, I heard it from a longtime day care operator. Not saying whether it’s true or not but let’s just say many day care operators don’t trust DCFS any farther than they can throw them.
Elaine, your a carnie barker for even having such thoughts….do any other states have a “3 hour rule”?
I don’t know, I’d have to look them up. The “3 hour rule”, by the way, means that assistants can supervise classrooms or groups of kids for up to 3 hours per day in the absence of an early childhood teacher. The difference between an early childhood assistant and an early childhood teacher is that the teacher has to have at least 60 college credit hours of which 6 hours have to be classes in child development, or 30 college credit hours (6 in child development) plus at least one year experience working in a day care center or preschool.… Read more »
DCFS is a joke. Run by career government employees doing time. The “rules” are simply a game for the agency to claim they are doing…something – anything. These “rules” drive up the cost of childcare, increasing the program that we all pay for through taxation and lowering the day to day working dollars of citizens. Exactly the opposite of what government should be doing.
Hmm, once upon a time mothers cared for their children. What happened and can it be called progress?
Good summary of the issues involved.