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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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Education money should follow the student. It should be paid in cash one year at a time to the parents. Let them find school that best fits their child and his needs. If the child isn’t meeting the goals or is absent too often or is disruptive reduce or eliminate the money. Make the parents responsible for their own child. The State cannot do it!
All the kids are above average……
Yep, the sooner you get the poor performers out into the adult working world, the better for society. Pretzel logic.
Skip two grades. Hell, skip them all. One doesn’t need much of an education to be a lookout for drug dealers or bag fries at MacDonald’s. Follow the third world example the Dems want us to be and put ‘em all to work at age nine.
Your comment may not be as outlandish as you think. If a 5th-grade public school student is at a 3rd-grade level, is it a good use of taxpayer money for that student to go through three more grades to graduate at a 4th or 5th-grade level?
Sad thing I heard today from a relative who teaches high school freshmen English. On quite a few days, he reads passages out loud, he told me. Why? I asked. “Because they can’t read.” That’s in what I will only say is in a formerly top notch suburban public high school.
Forget about skipping grades when students can’t perform at grade level.
When CPS lowers the testing standards, they will be able to advance more kids as that hurdle of “exceeding” standards becomes easier. It doesn’t seem like a policy change when CPS continues to advance students that can barely read and do math now. If the families had real school choice like 33 other states, their kids wouldn’t be tied down to failing schools and teachers.
DEI lives!
What an insane policy.
It just sets these kids up for failure.
You can be sure that after this program is implemented, there will be no success metrics available.