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In Illinois, $5.1 billion in ARP ESSER funding was awarded to the state Board of Education for its reopening plan that implemented strategies with "an emphasis on equity and diversity." The plan provided school districts with training on topics like "anti-racism" and equity, and allocated a percentage of funds to create a statewide coalition to help school districts offer grants for projects addressing "issues pertaining to interrupted learning and support groups that were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic (e.g., homeless, LGBQT [sic], marginalized communities)."
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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Tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber.
Criminal
This is why the American Rescue Plan got zero GOP votes in Congress — it was nothing but a Marxist wish-list and a bailout for blue states and cities
“issues pertaining to interrupted learning and support groups that were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic”
This narrative is so tiring, the same narrative that (homeless, LGBQT [sic], marginalized communities, are always negatively and disproportionately affected. They’re all martyrs of systemic oppression. Everyone suffered though the pandemic.