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Gov. JB Pritzker said despite state data showing some areas with low proficiencies in math and reading, the state is educating children. “We always want to do better. We want our kids to do better, and in fact we’ve invested in that in the state of Illinois,” Pritzker said as he praised federal taxpayer resources for public education. U.S. Education Secretary Cardona said, “They just want to disrupt what is happening,” Cardona said. “When I talk to parents, when I talk to educators and when I talk to students, they’re not thinking about what she’s thinking about. They’re thinking about what opportunities they have.”
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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“Gov. JB Pritzker said despite state data showing some areas with low proficiencies in math and reading” Imagine that. I don’t know where Governor Pritzker gets his data but there are a lot of Illinois School Districts that have low proficiencies in math and reading. Many districts considered desirable often have considerable amounts of students behind on their math and reading. Perhaps the saddest thing is that so many in Illinois believe Pritzker’s blarney but what can one expect considering so many are products of the Illinois Public School system?
Its difficult to understand, but different communities view education differently. Some communities value indoctrination over education. It’s a major cultural shift from the culture of excellence that you’re used to. As a district becomes more minority-majority, the culture of the district begins to change, and education becomes less valued. Your neo-colonial view that the minority must be educated is white supremacy racism, forcing your views on peoples that just don’t give two craps about adding up two plus two. These parents are more concerned that the school give their kids free breakfast and lunch every day. Hopefully someday this mindset… Read more »
This is what you get — when pink-haired, nose ringed, perverts/weirdos with severe mental problems, are teaching your kids about sexual deviance
Good to see the GOP doing something. The GOP clearly gets under his skin when they ask presumptuous, loaded questions. Too bad it’s the national GOP with Miller asking these questions and not every GOP leaders from five counties around. They should be organizing protests, throwing eggs at the man whenever he goes south of I-80. They should be the #resistance but they are weak-kneed losers.