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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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When have they ever cared about the student ?
CTU has been anti student for years. Charter schools are a success, and therefore a threat to failing CPS schools. Charter schools expose the incompetence of CPS. Teachers.
I agree that the contract is anti-student. No CTU contract has ever been pro-student. It’s a teachers’ union, not a students’ union. Anyone who thinks CTU is worried about the kids is delusional. That being said, the moniker “sustainable community schools” is a deception. All CPS schools are sustainable community schools… they’re called neighborhood schools. It’s not a new model. Whether or not a school engages neighborhood services and organization is most profoundly affected by the school and network admin. Someone is getting paid a lot of money to promote something that’s already there. Additionally, comparing selective enrollment school outcomes… Read more »
Teachers just pass the students through the system without regard to education. This has been going on for decades. It is nothing short of criminal.
It’s just a new definition of education. Education = people paid to teach and kids who live in the neighborhood spend time together in the same building at the same time.
Sure and each can learn from the other IF they have a mindset making that the main objective. If not it’s a waste of time and resources. Being present is a start but only that. No guarantees can be made on the outcome of any such contact.
I suppose you think routinely holding poor performers back maybe even multiple times is both possible financially and will cause such people to productive. The first problem is that’s a non-starter financially. Schooling with only the rarest exceptions is a one-and done exposure for each student in each grade and course in his educational pathway. There’s no ongoing surplus for significant expenditures when great numbers of course or grade repeats are the usual game plan.. Then, the reality for most such students is they will choose to drop out sooner than not anyway given enough humiliation, despair and boredom with… Read more »
You are not doing what you get paid for. The students and taxpayers are being cheated by your failure to teach. What you are doing now is making a HS education worthless. You are also down grading the kids who actually learn. Now no one thinks there is any kind of education being taught in school. You have managed to make a HS education from a CPS worthless.
The “you” in your first sentence certainly was never me in that I’ve never worked there. That aside, you are adamant that teachers and/ or their union are the main reasons for the decline. It bears repeating to point out that academic performance in public schools has dropped nationally rather than Chicago alone. There are problems in most schools almost everywhere in this country in meeting the totally arbitrary standards so many of us want to see, myself included. So, the bottom line is you have to give considerable thought to why our nation as a whole isn’t able to… Read more »