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“I believe in building on what works,” Pritzker said. “So, despite the challenge we are facing this year, my budget proposal increases our commitment to evidence-based funding for public education so that we put new resources in underfunded schools first.”
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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Underfunded schools? That is just Pritzker-Speak for the CTU wants more cash while Illinois has the highest funding per student in the midwest. Saying anything is evidence-based is just like the lies he helped spew during covid and should send shivers down everyone’s spine. What a liar.
Building on what works? Where in Illinois is education working? It is like building on quicksand. All one has to do is to look at the proficiency numbers of children throughout the state. What a dangerous clown. But that is the Democrat way, throw more money at what they perceive to need it.