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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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Just for general information. I looked up the school district I am in (West Central Illinois) and found the following for teacher salaries. Beginning $35,629. Last Step with M.A.+30 $73,919
I wonder if you are looking at an old contract or one for non-teachers? House Bill 2078 was signed by Pritzker in 2019 that made the minimum starting teacher salary $40.000. It was phased in over the last 4 years but the beginning salary you quoted hasn’t been in compliance for the last 3 school years.
I just went online and looked it up under their collective bargaining agreement for 2024-25
Microsoft Word – 2022-2026 Collective Gaining – FINAL
So that is what I know.
Paging Sister Mary Knuckles……..
The CPS school year is only 176 days. So, “chronically absent” teachers missing min 10 days only worked 166 days to make their $95gs on average vrs in private sector w 2 or 3 week vacation/sick/holidays your working 240 to 250 days a year.
The sad reality is so many of are public sector hero jobs are in reality part-time in comparison to private sector. It’s not just teachers.
Oh I get it. You people are so dumb, you actually thought that they were being paid to do a job. How sad. It has to be hard going through life with the IQ and situational awareness of an Illinoisan.
Lots of articles. Lots of reports. Lots of evidence. Lots of good people like WirePoints doing the right thing. So, there is lots of information that suggests that CPS and CTU and the CIty Government of Chicago are at best inefficient and at worst criminal. The problem for the tax payer is, nothing ever happens. All kinds of evidence and information that illustrate how wrong the current CPS and other arrangement are…but hell, there is no penalty or down side for anyone within these organizations to behave this way, so nothing is going to change there till the people wake… Read more »
It’s because Democrat voters are stupid. They really are stupid idiots. A democracy of complete moron Democrat voters gets you Joe Biden and Brandon Johnson. It’s really that simple.
But fortunately not Kamala Harris.
A significant number of Chicago residents have a close relative (or spouse/partner) who works for City of Chicago, or CPS, or Cook County. Their household income depends on City and County paychecks. They enjoy those public sector jobs’ perks and wages which exceed public-sector comparable wages. They aren’t in favor of dissembling Gravy Train of public pork. They aspire for their children to also get same jobs, same wages, same foreshortened work-days and ghost payroll positions.
Someone should check how many relatives and friends of Brandon Johnson have joined City-payroll workforce since he became mayor.
See today’s NYT article on Haiti for insight on nihilism and cynicism in society.
And think of the Rust Belt towns who must absorb those Haitian migrants on their own dime.
Once upon a time unions could rightly claim that they assured management of a high quality, highly trained workforce as leverage in bargaining. This quaint notion may still exist is some trades but it’s not a factor with CTU, which operates not as a union but as a political organization not accountable to even its own members. The same rate of absenteeism in most businesses would lead to discipline and termination. A highly paid workforce outfit to be….working.
Shocker!!–somebody’s at Trib editorial board is reading WP & IPI all of a sudden (obviously not at ST/WBEZ & Chalkbeat)?
Why does the big CPS mystery continue–i.e. simply release to public the # of classroom days or % of days kids are stuck with substitutes??? What does CPS spend on substitutes a year???
Yup, you’d think maybe a hat tip to some of the “carnival barkers” like us would be in order. We and a few others have long written about this but been ignored. https://wirepoints.org/chicago-mayor-wants-1-billion-more-for-schools-even-though-43-of-cps-teachers-are-chronically-absent-wirepoints-quickpoint/
No hat tip if you believe as I do that the media, the democratic party and the unions are just different parts of the same clover.
Nihilist and cynical staff dominate the work force. They see the collapse and determine to extort the last scintilla of graft, understanding there will be no personal consequence.
somebody needs to file a FOIA request to have CPS release the $ amount it spends on substitutes or # of classroom days substitutes are hired for…..(ditto for all the other crazy +800 Illinois school districts)
You’d think Chicago Trib ownership would realize their ever declining subscription rates is directly linked to their progressive-liberal Marxist-promoting editorial staff and reporters. Former Trib publication LA Times has already made the connection, cleaned house amongst their progressive staffers.
My subscription for online daily and a complimentary Sunday hard copy paper went from $14 a month to $23.96 a month and then last month up to $40 a month. I called to cancel today and lo and behold, it went back to $14 a month. They are desperate to keep subscribers and truth be told it is the only decent source for news here. Although I do love
CWB and Block Club.