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Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about CTU President Stacy Davis-Gates blaming Chicago students’ dismal test scores on “white-supremacy,” what it will take for school choice to win in Illinois, the lies people will hear from the DNC about the success of Illinois’ progressive policies, the decline of Illinois universities, and more.
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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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Gates always has an excuse for her overpaid, underperforming employee base, her tax delinquencies, her children attending better schools, etc. She and the Dalton mayor too busy chasing stardom to be of any use to the public at large.
We have no Illinois Educational System,
The whole thing is a joke, children are not educated they move along grade to grade,
Through 12th and move along into college
Where many do not obtain a four year degree paid for by the taxpayers.
Lol. Agreed. School Districts are simply expensive Day-care, Food Service and Transportation organizations. That is their focus. Teaching is secondary.
When ever there is a strike or some other interruption of school, the headline isn’t classes or the loss in education for the students…it is the teachers issues and then parents have to figure out the day care situation and what to do with the kid for the day.
It should be toxic, but it isn’t. What part of, “They don’t care” do you not get? It was never about the kids. It was never about quality education. None of these educational directives work because they were never designed to work. They were designed to grow government, provide patronage do nothing jobs and separate you from your money so that it can be more readily stolen. The democratic party has no interest in educating anyone, leave alone minorities. The ignorant and the generationally stupid, especially minorities, are their best voters. Truly educated persons are much harder to get to… Read more »