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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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I don’t have a solution to chronic absenteeism or why parents may not care whether their children are getting an education. But what I do know is spending more and more to get less and less is really pretty stupid, so spending time trying to figure out a new program or solution to spend more money to try and solve this social problem will likely not work. The services provided through schools needs to be right sized to the demand and eliminate services that have nothing to do with teaching and education. As I have said before, School Districts have… Read more »
Pandemic related losses in learning. Don’t you mean democrat and teacher’s union caused losses in learning? The parochial schools didn’t have that problem. Then they mention Effingham and Chicago or East St. Louis. Hmmm what could be the differences there? $9,900 and 19% absenteeism, versus $19,000/$25,000 and 40%/65% absenteeism. Going to school and getting educated equals being white, and we know the democrats and their teacher’s union cohorts hate whites. The indoctrination is so complete that the slave masters have the slaves VOLUNTARILY avoiding the very thing that could end their slavery. It’s grotesque and amazing at the same time.… Read more »
all the chronic absentee rates are horrible, but 40% chronic absentee rate at CPS at $30g a pop is in outer-space. And one will never find this reported on Caulk-Beat (CTU-Beat) as taxpayers are simply ask to pay more, and more, and more $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Surely in most cases any teacher’s ongoing curriculum plan requires usage of ideas and skills presumed to have been reasonably well learned earlier with mathematics an obvious and maybe extreme example. So, tell me, what is the community’s collective thought processes that dismisses a chronic absenteeism as being acceptable. It isn’t! The schools can do only so much without further governmental assistance to combat that problem. Why are so many parents oblivious to the importance of minimizing their childrens’ school absenteeism? Any such student is almost doomed to academic failure.
Yes James and you know the source of the problem – culture. The cheapest and most effective thing politicians could do is use their positions as a bully pulpit on this issue. But they and the compliant media have little interest in doing this as without severe problems to point to it becomes harder to request additional funds. The academic deficiencies are a civil rights issue but the perpetrators are a bunch which obtain sympathy.
Maybe Stacy could condemn student attendance as rooted in the systemic legacy of racism just like she espouses with test scores….then same thing w teachers….at $30gs a pop
Yes, you said it right. The culture of the local school sets the basic tone of what’s to be expected from their children in all sort of ways that count: interest in academics, behavior and attendance springing to mind immediately. Eventually the school relfects the community’s value system or essentially “you get what you pay for.” The word “pay” there refers to much more than money. We all have to “pay” for a good life one way or another with much of that being fully commited to doing what’s necessary to make it happen in terms of our own set… Read more »
In the past, stricter teaching methods and zero tolerance caused the graduation rates to drop into the 50% range during the 80’s and 90’s but at least the kids who graduated could read. In the ensuing decades, schools have lightened up on the academics, going almost completely woke, but they are graduating nearly 90 to 95% of the students, most of whom graduate aggrieved and angry at the heterosexual cisgender euro-centric patriarchy aka yt. But the schools get more federal dollars, having more students, even if the average student can’t read. But that’s not the point. The point is to… Read more »
Left out of this story is any mention of federal money. Do these school districts receive any federal funds and are these funds based on student attendance? Notably missing is what the absenteeism rate is in Chicago public schools.
I do not have enough fingers to point at the various issues and problems with the expensive Illinois school system but one thing for sure regardless of anything is if the students won’t show up for class then failing academic achievement is to be expected.