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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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So how do we evaluate teachers if not by the success rate in producing educated students? From other teachers? On how popular they are with their students and the parents? How engaged they are in social justice and DEI? Judging an employees worth by the quality and quantity of their assigned work is the only way, all else is smoke and mirrors.
Give the lawmakers about 50 years. They’ll eventually figure it out
They object to the very concept of evaluating teachers, so no need to find an alternate method. As long as they show up when required, they are fulfilling their contract. No further questions should be asked, and no further performance required.
Not surprisingly, three rational comments drew three thumbs down probably from the same person that sees accountability as a racist, capitalist, oppressive white male concept.