Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a former CTU organizer, also weighed in on the budget Tuesday. “As far as the budget is concerned, as you know, we inherited a mess,” Johnson said. “And I made a vow that we’re not going to cut to the classroom.”
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
Yes, BJ’s administration did inherit a mess. The amount of money Chicago was given for public education was way too much compared to the results achieved.
Only when they teach the how to read and do math at grade level should they get 1 dime more. And the absentee rate fo teacher reported at 46%!
Johnson’s reason for all Chicago’s problems, blame someone else.
If you can’t, or won’t, teach them anything useful, entertain them.
That’s how the education system raised the graduation rates in inner-cities from 50% to 90% in the past decade or two. They stopped teaching, and started indoctrinating.
Enhancing the Student experience. Wow. How about, just teach them English, Math, Science and History for starters. Once you have them up to grade level of reading and math…then talk about more, but do the basics well, then Enhance the Student Experience. Common Sense.
The problem is many of these kids can’t learn and don’t care to using the current teaching structure. Many of these kids eat nothing but crap and garbage food and are hyperactive and have learning problem. The studies tend to show a correlation between food additives and ADHD and other learning problems, but it really realized it several years back when talking to one of my son’s friends. My son eats normal food, not much processed food, healthy meals. This kid’s parents feed him, I kid you not, 100% processed food. They told me his daily snack is Doritos. They… Read more »
You are right and then they want to give kids meds for ADHD instead of changing their diet!! Pitiful