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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.
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.
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“Families may decide to move away from Chicago, searching for school systems that put students first.” You’re circling over the target, Sun-Times, but still missing the point. They want rich white and asian families to leave and they want them excised from the CPS system. This is a feature, not a bug. It is the stated goal of the people in charge who say this stuff say it out loud. It’s reverse racism and they don’t like you, or your fancy schools, or your booster clubs, or your selective enrollments. Be Gone! they say. This is from 2013, the CTU… Read more »
An assumption that the only people worried about police in schools are the “defund them “crowd, troublemaker kids and their parents.
Paging Sister Mary Knuckles……..
IT’S ALL ABOUT SAVING THE DOLLAR FOR THEIR BS