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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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I did not know the did teach the kids to read.
We have been teaching children to read for centuries. Now they want to act as if it is some big mystery that will require billions more in training $$. They want schools that are nothing more than woke madrasas.
We’ve been teaching people to read for Millennia. Aristotle taught Alexander the Great to read using the Iliad and sticks/clay tablets. Current woke administrators don’t want to teach children to read. They don’t care to. Like you said, all they want are woke madrasas. I point this out to my local school board that there is considerable evidence that its pivot to wokeness this past decade is directly related to falling test scores. The administrations response to falling test scores? We have an moral obligation to apply equity even if that means more students perform poorly. Parents scream at them… Read more »
The question is, how well can the teachers themselves read?
Illinois Public Schools today teach kids:
— how to hate God, America, and anyone of a different race
— all about perverted and deviant sex lifestyles
— that Marxist dictatorship is the only correct form of government
*pounds head against wall*
This…is…what…good…old-school…teachers…have…been…telling…admin…and…reading…”specialists”… for… years…
*heavy sigh*
They only care about equity. School administrators would be happy if no one could read – and that’s where my local district is headed – because then everyone would be on the same level. Reading proficiency in my district has fallen 12-14% in the previous six years. The administrators blame the tests instead of their curriculum. School board gets rid of advanced reading ‘for equity’ as test scores are dropping, renews superintendent’s contract, and everyone pats themselves on the back for being so great.
Hmm, where’s all those nuns now?
Most are retired; though the ranks are thinned, there are still some hardy nuns out there teaching the next generation. At each grade level a single nun ran roughshod on a class of 30+. Over eight years students learned how to read, structure a sentence, comprehend, reason, do math and understand simple science and biology, as well as love our country and respect one another all while deferring to sister’s authority. Had a student dared to mouth off at the teacher, parents wouldn’t storm the convent to defend bad behavior and threaten to sue. Students graduated high school ready to… Read more »