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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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Semantics. A full recovery to a pre Covid level of extreme ineptness is like being the tallest midget…it really doesn’t mean anything.
Or, like being valedictorian of summer school.
Come grading time English and language arts can be graded quite subjectively. On the other hand math and science are generally graded objectively and that is where the problems show.
If anything education in Illinois is getting worse. Please name all the National reports you are referring to, don’t just quote the ones that agree with your opinion.
Never forget that school officials and teachers give themselves “ exemplary “ reviews of themselves when the majority of the students they pass along, er “ graduate”, have no education and are hard pressed to tie their shoes.
Where’s the evidence? Share some data.
Not buying it!
Such bullsh-t unbelievable someone has the gall to say this let alone publish it, my god what has this state become. Hello wake up people dozens-of-illinois-schools-have-0-students-proficient-in-math-reading. From wirepoints article.
He said this with a straight face? No Way. His fingers were crossed and just finished his 14th drink playing beer pong.