Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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HB 1368 is a solid move by Illinois’ leaders toward literacy reform by training teachers in “science of reading” methods that emphasize traditional reading skills such as phonics, language development and vocabulary.
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
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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.
This bill sounds like a “solid move” to spend a lot of taxpayer money for consultants to have many instructional presentations and computer-aided tools to instruct teachers on the so-called “science of reading.” Who knew reading was a science? That reminds me of how people throw around the word “engineering” today to apply to almost anything. Trying to legitimize the phrase “science of reading” will result in higher-priced consultants at taxpayer expense. Consultants helping teachers teach reading would be highly paid; consultants helping teachers learn the “science of reading” would be very highly paid. So, are we saying that highly-paid… Read more »
Hmm, nuns seemed to do just fine in the 60s’s. What happened? Maybe bring back McGuffy’s Reader and 1/2 day phonics!
First stopCTU teachers from chronically calling off. Second, make them actually teach reading, Mary, and science.
Sorry Deb. Teachers are not robots and in fact humans that have families. They will need to take days off when they are ill, when family members are ill, when they attend a closing on a house, or whatever other reason they choose that is allowed in their contract. They will also teach the curriculum set by CPS. Teachers don’t set the curriculum in their classroom. That curriculum includes reading, math and science.