Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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“The canaries in the coal mine are probably the large cities like New York, LA, Chicago because the numbers are so stark that they made people kind of sit up and take notice,” said Joseph Connor, the CEO and founder of Agora, which works with states to help run school choice programs.
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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.
Don’t confuse education with a government sponsored jobs program.
When you thought it could not get any worse. Not sure if this is true.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/minneapolis-teachers-union-white-teachers-laid-off
This is a great article with some stunning drops in enrollment.
I hope that the tens of thousands of parents who removed their children from these horrible public schools realize that it was THEIR OWN VOTES FOR DEMOCRATS that caused this mess, and all of the other problems in their cities. Since teacher’s unions are the core of all big city regimes these days, these parents need to stop voting to perpetuate the system that is the root of all problems. Removing their children from the state run schools is only the first step.
Blame everything but the real reason, school choice, because parents do not like the quality of public education. The children are going to school somewhere.
Chickens come home to roost.
When democrats fail at the basics — like schools and crime — people vote with their feet