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Ted joined Ray and Nick to talk about the universal school choice program that Texas is about to pass, why school choice is spreading so rapidly across the country, why Illinois lawmakers are trying to take over homeschooling, the details of the new CPS teachers contract, and more.
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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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Of course other states are moving in the Choice Direction…because it makes sense. Illinois won’t do it because there isn’t enough corruption and graft opportunities in the school choice approach. You can see it, at a time when most states are moving toward School Choice…Illinois goes the opposite direction and even begins a process of trying to control and regulate home schooling and how parents educate their children. It is obvious to anyone looking that Illinois corruption is in full swing here. Hey, but it’s all about the kids.
Instead of Illinois adopting school choice the state has become the abortion capitol of the Midwest.
The politicians need an Exorcism ASAP.
CTU will fight school choice even though CPS is failing. CTU bought Johnson and other officials. IL residents deserve school choice and the right to select what is right for their children. I guess “right to choose “ in IL is only for abortion.
They have a right to choose. They just don’t have a right to make others pay for their choice.
Oh, but some people do have the right to make others pay for their choice. Just put together a bigger mob, and you can make everyone pay for your choices.