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CPS — in a progressive city in a Democratic state — has largely been insulated from standoffs over diversity and inclusion in recent years, when districts in other parts of the country have come under intense scrutiny over how they teach race and how they take it into account in hiring, selective program admissions, and other decisions. Increasingly, though, deep blue cities like Chicago are finding themselves in the crosshairs.
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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Schools that once held multiple hundreds of students now hold low double digit numbers of students. Parents who care are gone. They understand that character is the basis of academic success.and CPS employees lacking character, cannot model it to others.
Uh oh, someone is confusing a grift with education again.
Oh, so noooow you’re concerned about black student success? Wasn’t that what were you supposed to be worried about for the past 20, 30, 40… years?
The goal isn’t to improve test scores. Schools are designed to teach woke, produce agitators, community activists.
Solution: to improve test scores, lower the standards again. What used to be a rotten score would become not bad; what used to be a not bad score would become pretty good, etc. That way everybody wins (except American society).
This has been CPS / CTU’s modus operandi for at least 30 years.
The woke madrasas produce activists and agitators. Somehow teachers expect to collect massive pensions from the generation of illiterate, innumerate malcontents their system is designed to produce. Pure genius.
Teachers expect their cushy future pensions will be paid by the generation of illiterate, innumerate malcontents their schools are designed to produce. Pure genius.
The only Black Student Success Plan involves sending them to schools in another state with these things called teachers. They are then taught Reading, Writing and Math.
None of those topics are available from the CTU Cadre impersonating said “teachers”. Like most of the government functions and employees in Chicago outside Police and Fire, it is just a jobs program.
Still no word on how they plan to improve reading and math scores. Do they really believe more black teachers and more black history will improve literacy and numeracy? Unfortunately for CPS students, the people in charge of education do believe this nonsense.