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During his time on the board, CPS dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic, student-led protests over resource officers in schools and the state vote that will transform the board into an elected body.
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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Another screaming, no substance leftie who accomplished nothing for his constituents. Let’s not forget how many decades he was in the legislature, school chief, etc. Plenty of time to help the downtrodden. And he accomplished squat. Way back to the 1980’s he was going to reform Chicago, but instead just padded his pension and burped out platitudes.