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Union President Stacy Davis Gates told reporters, “The price tag is opportunity for Black children, immigrant children, and Latine children." She said she plans to end the fight for funding with this contract, “come hell or high water, and I don’t give a damn who pay.”
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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“I don’t give a damn who pay”. OK then charge the parents tuition for just one year. One year only and they can get reimbursed at the end of the school year. At close to $30K per kid they will actually see what it costs. I’ll wager not one parent will pay a dime. They have no clue on what taxpayers are being charged. Nothing will change until it hurts their pocketbook. Nothing!
The bottomless greed of these evil and stupid CTU cattle is difficult to comprehend.
Yep, there is no bottom. Bottomless pit of waste, providing no value. Patronage jobs. That’s all it is.
“I don’t give a damn who pay.” from the leader of the “Teacher’s” union. And you wonder why children at CPS can’t read. In order to educate, one must, themselves, be educated. Not happening in Chicago.
Has Stacy Davis-Gates and her lunacy finally forced even our most reliable teacher union supporters in the comments to finally give up?
LOL – I had to laugh at that one too. Consider the source and you know why that statement was made that way. Just manipulation and she’s right, she doesn’t give a damn who pays or if they can afford it or whether it is worth it…does not matter to her. Send her a check.
I have a suggestion on ‘who pay’ – furlough and layoff as many CTU members as needed to close the financial gap. It can be done, and should be done. Long overdue.