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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 CTU does not want to return and won’t. The white students will attend virtually and the permanent victim class will be committing street crimes instead of going to school just like they did last year.
CPS has nothing, the decision falls to the CTU. An opportunity to eye slap Lori.
Chicago parents stand up for once and say NO!
Vote republican or you will see no change!
Correct, this is on the parents now.
vote Repubican? hahahahaha, few parents sent their kids back for hybrid classes when they had the chance, and when a majority of white parents (and hardly any BIPOC) sent their kid back it was called White Supremacy and privilege. Let’s be honest, neither the parents, the students nor the teachers want to return ever.