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The district wants to “transition away from privatization and admissions/enrollment policies and approaches that further stratification and inequity in CPS and drive student enrollment away from neighborhood schools,” the resolution says. The Board of Education says the school choice system, as it exists today, “reinforces, rather than disrupts, cycles of inequity” and must be replaced with “anti-racist processes and initiatives that eliminate all forms of racial oppression.”
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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All part of attempt to by CTU push new membership hiring drive through their “sustainable schools” model where empty CPS schools get magically transformed into your all-in-one/ one stop shopping for FREE STUFF services from everything from mental health services, to job training, to crappy k-12 educations. All staffed with new hire CTU members and no clue as to how taxpayers will pay for it all …Look for this to be part of $gigantic$ pay-to-play new contract in ’24’ (probably after convention).
God forbid that those kids could have a choice.
Many CPS teachers “choose” schools outside CPS, you’d think they’d be on board with school choice.
This will cause even lefty parents to move to the suburbs, where they’ll continue to vote Democratic.
Because it makes them feel so good! It’s all about the feelz with the soft and touchy-feely lefties, even after they’ve been mugged.
It is of course…all about the kids… What a joke.
If CTU demands students simply enroll and attend their designated neighborhood school, then CPS can exit the transportation business of moving thousands of students every day from their home neighborhood to a far-flung alternate school locations, freeing-up millions of dollars for more classroom spending in theory. But this same strategy would then recreate situation where high-performing schools become those schools where school-age children’s parents are upper-middle-class college-educated white-collar professionals willing to supplement their children’s education with private tutoring, educational enrichments, and parent-supervised homework sessions. Chicago would be back in the 1960s, underperforming schools in working-class neighborhoods, high-performing schools on Northside… Read more »
Hmm, Stacy’s kid would be going to a school in Englewood…..
Oops, he’s into soccer. He’d be going to Benito Juarez…..
Pretty soon CPS will want to move away with home choice.
As an example here are some tuition costs for private schools in Chicago.
https://www.stjohnschicago.school/tuition.html
https://www.icsjschool.org/apps/pages/tuition
https://www.stbarnabasparish.school/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1249643&type=d&pREC_ID=1475095
If you notice there are discounts for more than 1 child and scholarships/tuition assistance depending on need/discounts if you become a member of a specific church affiliation. These costs are at least 1/3rd of the cost for CPS. There are options and should be explored. Do you want your kids to be educated then sacrifices must me made. The future is dependent on the decision you make today.
Grade schools usually give discounts for multiple children (mine did), high schools not so much (ours didn’t).
A colleague just sent me this article. My response? Shrug. CTU killed Invest in Kids, now CPS is levelling the death blow to Chicago. Surprised? Nope. The kids and families who are carrying the district will leave, which will include a lot of CPS teachers with elementary/middle school aged kids, cuz their kids ain’t gettin in to Lane or Payton anymore, and no more private school. Remember kids, Marxists aren’t happy unless everyone else is equally.. miserable.
It’s so sad, I can’t help but laugh.