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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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The Land of Lincoln, where everyone gets a participation trophy.
Well since SAT just announced, that as of 2023, SAT will be solely on-line test, two hours duration, calculators and personal computing devices allowed. Gentlemen, let the formally-sanctioned cheating begin!
“Illinois currently has an average SAT score that is 10.3% below the national average, yet its college admission rate is 20.6% higher than the national average.”
Here a link to the 2021 Illinois SAT Suite of scores from the College Board. Feel free to take a deep dive into the data.
https://reports.collegeboard.org/pdf/2021-illinois-sat-suite-assessments-annual-report.pdf
“In terms of Illinois, it did rank 7th to last in lowest SAT scores,” Kronschnabel told The Center Square. “It is interesting because while Illinois has such a low average SAT score, their college admission rate is one of the highest.” Note the word: admission. Not attendance. Our state is a minority-majority state for high school seniors. I don’t think surrounding states are minority-majority yet. This means our low SAT scoring BIPOC (non-asian) population is admitted to college at higher rates than higher scoring white populations from surrounding states. It’s no secret that whites and asians lose points on college… Read more »
When most of Illinois colleges and universities, with exclusion of flagship campus, function as open enrollment admissions, then it’s easy to brag about a supposedly “equitable” high overall admissions rate for its HS grads. Problem is such overtly liberalized admissions results in astoundingly high drop-out rates and terrible graduate rates at those same institutions.
As I have, talk to community college instructors about the skills of students enrolling after graduating high school.
Many incoming students can barely function at a remedial level in reading, writing, and reasoning.
Sad – these are the leaders of tomorrow.
Or the angry soldiers in the social justice war. They have been led to believe that it is the “system” that has so drastically failed them. After all, the teachers that failed to educate them told them so!
And lets not forget that at their age these are the voters of today
Parents are shunning the politicized SAT anyway – what does it prove? They made themselves irrelevant by adjusting the testing standards some time ago. It is ACT or bust at this point.