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A day after supporters applauded Chicago Public Schools’ decision to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day moving forward, outraged Italian-American City Council members said the change meant it was “time for war with CPS” and a local group vowed to challenge the move.
Board member Elizabeth Todd-Breland, an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said “I believe in the transformative potential of culturally responsive education.”
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 indigenous people didn’t discover the Americas on October 12th. Leave Columbus alone and find another day to name Indigenous People Day. Consider the indigenous people that were present when Columbus arrived in the Americas. When did they arrive and what transpired? Various factions of indigenous people in the Americas discovered new territory, battled each other, participated in slavery, committed atrocities, etc. So why does the CPS board think that indigenous people are better than Columbus? In the Sun-Times article Alderman Anthony Napolitano pointed out the failed attempt to rename Balbo Drive to Ida B Wells Drive. So that’s two… Read more »
LA no longer has Columbus Day. If it’s fallen out of favor I guess that’s the sign of the times but native Americans aren’t exactly blemish-free either. Foxwoods got into trouble with $2 billion of debt 10 years ago. It’s still $2 billion in debt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/magazine/mike-sokolove-foxwood-casinos.html
Oh stupid alderman, just get to the point and tell her what this is really about. This has nothing to do with being Italian. It is all about being White. Columbus is a white man’s holiday, and we can’t have any more of that, not when our terribly performing public schools are filled with non-white students. And if you don’t believe me, read the horribly racist quote below from the racist board member: “I believe in the transformative potential of culturally responsive education,” she said. “In addition to our Indigenous students in CPS, more than 80% of our students are… Read more »