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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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Macarena has watched too many Hollywood movies.
Does she think she’s re-enacting NASA Mission Control?
Although it would be funny to hear a bunch of “Chicago, we have a problem” calls.
Alternate title: Chicago Public Schools Sets Up District Command Center in Response to ‘Fear and Anxiety’ of Students Who Can’t Read or Do Math at Grade Level.
If you are here legally, there is nothing to fear.
If not, consider self deporting – free passage back to your country, some cash to help you ease in, and the opportunity to come back legally. Sounds more than fair.
Hey. Here’s an idea. You want praise ? Teach these kids so they aren’t 4 grades behind the rest of the country. Leave politics and just do your jobs Educate
Granted, ICE is creating some level of fear and anxiety at many CPS schools but isn’t that everyday reality for many kids in some school anyway? How many school kids are in danger just getting to school and at school? The everyday outrage isn’t there.