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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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If CTU’s demands resonate with teachers nationwide, the whole lot needs to be shitcanned.
And that void will create what? How soon and at what costs? Miracles generally don’t happen overnight.
First of all, the teachers that had their arms twisted to go along with the “ woke “ agenda will probably step up to help mitigate the loss of the socialists. Secondly, there are probably hundreds of qualified part time/ sub teachers waiting to go full time, and thousands more with every graduating college class every year wanting to be full time instructors. I think we’ve been gulled into a “ nobody wants that job “ mentality when in fact there are many people willing to become teachers.
Yes. It’s hard to imagine the garden while the lot is filled with weeds. But weeds aren’t the only thing that grows in the soil.
Well at least you have a concept of a plan, and that’s encouraging in itself. The actual recruiting of reasonably highly qualified staff would would take a LONG time if high quality. If you just want quick recruitment and really only need warm bodies with lesser priority you might reduce the prep process by half. Still, half of what? Meantime, what are those truly HUGE numbers of yutes doing—anything productive, roaming the streets, doing target practice for fun and profit? What?? Chances are 95% are not home reading Shakespeare or volunteering for useful employment.
The “demanded” reforms are simply not affordable by most large urban districts. Public schools should concentrate on teaching basics that prepare students for work or further education. If sociological issues can be effectively addressed by government — a debatable proposition — then separate agencies should get involved with a staff of professionals able to ameliorate the problems. Perhaps the state should become involved (in effect replacing the home-rule cities who are not able to address the issues due to cost or for other reasons). My own belief (or prejudice) is that psychologists, sociologists and psychiatrists have not been particularly effective… Read more »
Being “unwilling to be taught” wasn’t an option for many of us baby boomers when we were of school age. If we tried to be unwilling, our fathers would’ve not so gently showed us the error of our ways.
Many disruptors have no live-in fathers. How can any government or agency fix that? We can’t afford the little law enforcement we have and many biological fathers pursue whatever hedonistic impulses prevail in the moment. More primitive sanctions might work but the judges would block those more readily than they’d enforce support orders. The teeth in our “rule of law” gnaw on the limbs of mothers and children.