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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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And Chicago teachers want how BIG a pay raise for their dismal performance?
Any parent who’s child can’t read at grade level or above is guilty of child abuse. They should be treated as such. You can’t bring a child into this world and expect to take no responsibility for them.
Right you are, guvna.
That’s really deep and profound. Keep showing us exactly why kids in schools staffed by the professionals who are paid to teach can’t read at grade level. We are understanding more with each comment.
I agree kids need both home and school to thrive. No doubt. But changing the scoring to make the results “appear better” does nothing but enhance the ability of school districts to continually increase the costs of education with less and less results. Rather than trying to solve the parent participation problem first…let’s stop the bleeding and reduce the number of school districts in the state, reduce the number of administrators and overhead staff, close under populated school buildings and right size district staffing to address the actual population of the district. The business of education would score big points… Read more »
It’s a tough problem to fix, for sure. We’ve imported tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who can’t read in either Spanish or English dragging down our average and median scores. We’ve doubled-down on common core – which everyone knows is awful – but we still do it anyways. And our smartest residents are not having children or having too few children to bring the averages back up. My son’s school, according to IllinoisReportCard dot com, the state’s school reporting website, has 26% of the students have “…been identified as gifted in accordance with the district’s gifted assessment and academic… Read more »