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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 LAUSD teachers’ strike only succeeded in demonizing charters. After the strike, voters defeated Measure EE by a landslide. The voters were awesome.
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-property-tax-lausd-explainer-20190605-story.html
Thank goodness the teachers in my school district know better than to strike over ‘social justice issues’. They wouldn’t even attempt that nonsense. My children attend school to learn, not to achieve ‘social justice’.
Maybe, but you might be surprised if you were if were to ask some random sample of them what they have to say about those two terms, “education” and “social justice.” Barring that, why not pass it around at a family gathering? Listen to what’s said. If nothing or nearly nothing is said, you might ponder what that means, too. ‘Nuff said.
What’s your moronic point? We know exactly what ‘social justice’ means because the CTU has threatened to strike over it these very issues. In this case, it’s smaller classes, shorter school days, higher pay, affordable housing, and a variety of other ‘equitable’ issue ‘du jour’. . Janice Jackson of the CTU calls it a ‘social justice bargaining’ agenda. Not sure why I have to ask my uncle or grandmother what they think social justice means.