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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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BJs main argument for eliminating choice doesn’t hold water. He states that neighborhood schools suffer from years of „disinvestment”. How? Every CPS school is allocated the same amount of money per pupil every year. Lane Tech doesn’t get a larger cut per kid than Schurz. The people running the school and the clientele therein, are what makes the difference.
I wonder who Stacy voted for or if Stacy even voted at all?
Add those “hundreds of thousands” she refers to as well.
She can thank the Black “Leadership”, in Chicago, that her voice isn’t heard. Did you hear the statement Rainbow Push put out about keeping some semblance of choice in Chicago(?)…me either.