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.
CTU is against any aid for private schools. Private schools actually educate students for less money. Private schools are a threat to CTU and CPS as complete failures in education. Democrats do not want voters educated and able to critically thinking, because them the Democrats would be exposed for their policies that only benefit Democrats.