Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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Audio and summary linked here.
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
Right on cue it seems the teacher union shills show up and seemingly with a beer in one hand and their you know what in the other loudly proclaim ‘Move along folks, nothing to see here’ with all the chronic teacher absences.
It seems you’re another guy just yearning to have a stroke. You’re “tilting at windmills” here.
And Winston found true happiness when he finally learned to love Big Brother.
CPS will never release # or % of classroom days kids are stuck with substitutes. As a former CPS parent (yes and student) from years ago, back then it was shocking # of days my kids would tell me they had substitutes one again. WP or IPI should file a foia requesting CPS release # of substitute classroom days. I’m sure it would be shocking.
Maybe, but really if you think about it a bit. Teachers are entitled by contract to various kinds of days off—sick days for themselves or family members, professional meetings locally or nationally and even personal days for reasons they decide. There may be others such reasons I’ve forgotten as well, but you get the idea, I presume. There are various reasons for such absences. Your feeling might be unintentionally exaggerated because any given child has several teachers, so any report that “my teacher was absent today” can apply to any one of those teachers. But the effect on the listener… Read more »
Or we could skip the guesswork and get the actual statistics from the districts. IIRC, Wirepoints did an article not too long ago about the high rates of teacher absences. That’s when you and PPF jumped in to assure everyone that this was their contractual right, entirely normal, exactly as it should be, etc, etc.
Yes, I’m aware these statistics are published, but people in general won’t take the time and interest to look for them relying instead on their political persuasion or rumors of the friends and neighbors. As to your final thought apparently you have no understanding or maybe inclination to respect contract rights unless they are written to your personal advantage, instead preferring to think your attitude has priority. It doesn’t!
Maybe each school district should hire a director of school absences. Give them a nice title and pay grade along with a pension and healthcare. Then those people can calculate all the days that teachers missed in each classroom and provide a report just so people that think teachers shouldn’t ever miss a day can complain. Not sure how you could post how many sick days an individual teacher used without violating their rights. I’m guessing you would need to aggregate the data rather than break it down to the individual teacher. Also, those teachers are contractually allowed to take… Read more »
Seems like a plan PP could appreciate—managing the situation down to the penny is the apparent goal. But, moaning and groaning only raises one’s blood pressure and solves nada thing.