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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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Good enforce remote learning lay off thousands of teachers and close schools taxpayers win
“Good idea” to many of the fiscal conservatives, but there’s a huge group of parents out there who are tired of remote learning and think its a joke. Remote learning likely works well with really bright and highly motivated students. The average won’t likely apply themselves all that much nor get help from their parents nearly as much. The dullards among the students and parents alike won’t benefit at all from it. The dullard students don’t gain much from face-to-face teaching, but at least the parents are glad not to have the day-to-day responsibilities of keeping pace with it as… Read more »
A broken clock is right twice a day and James is correct about this. Motivated students do remote learning well, while others just watch youtube videos on their chrome books all day. At least being in school for all kids kind of forces them to learn. Remote learning is a joke, and compounded with the common core curriculum, they’d all be better of just watching 4 hour of Ken Burns documentaries all day learning about how the real world works.
Believe me, you can’t force anyone to learn anything. Mandatory attendance only forces the body to be there. The attitude and mind might well be elsewhere and often is. I’m all for remote learning as a cost saving measure, but it requires intelligence, diligence and the ability to consistently be responsible Independently. If screening is done to somewhat assure who gets to do it long-term it’s likely a winning idea for maybe 10-20% of the student population. For others it’s likely to be varying degrees of a frustrating venture for all concerned and a “joke“ as many already label it.
” Mandatory attendance only forces the body to be there. ”
90% of life is just showing up, so I’m all for keeping kids in school. and in the case of most public school systems, it keeps kids off the streets during business hours, so they won’t be committing crimes.
Well, then you get what you get–a truly huge waste of taxpayer money. I’m for some form of user fees for anything above eighth grade. When you have “skin in the game” you take it more seriously. At the present students and parents to a large degree don’t see any reason to take schooling all that seriously partly for that reason. High school is simply a four-year holding pattern for way too many students. Let ’em see what life is like or pay for this indulgence by the taxpayers at large!
So parents with disabled children can’t return to work because CPS teachers want ‘remote’ learning? Isn’t special education supposed to be the most hands on of all the teaching jobs? What in the world is going on at CPS?