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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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Do black students who attend parochial or private schools do better than black CPS students?
There’s evidence that the first standardized tests in the US were used for racist purposes. But as a way to segregate people by race and class, i.e. the infamous “oarsman : regatta” question on early SAT tests assuming that only east coast WASPy types would know the answer to that question. But the concept of testing, including standardized testing, goes back thousands of years. The concept of imperial examination in china is nothing new, and quite frankly, has lead to a culture two thousand years later that STILL produces some of the highest standardized test scorers in the world. And… Read more »
Racist democrat party doing what the racist democrat party does best, calls everyone else racist that questions the racist democrat party but then acts like their typical racist party does, I wonder if the blacks are finally starting to wake up?
Can Stacy identify the White supremacy parts or is that also beyond her comprehension level?
Is she allowing her children in Catholic school to take standardized tests for college?
Isn’t the statement that Black Kids can’t pass standardized tests in and of itself racist? Or is that only if a white person says it? Making this statement as a fact without any explanation as to how such tests are racist is classic for the left today. When the left’s abject policy failures finally become some idiot journalist’s focus, deflect by claiming racism. Works with journalists and most of the public every time.
Who’s the bigger DEI idiot : Kamala or Stacy?
Stacy is a radical. Harris will support the lunacy if they support her radical agenda. The perfect union for for the demise of the Republic.
Want to know what’s wrong with the Chicago Public School system? The picture above tells you everything you need to know.
Why are comments being removed from this post. I hope Wirepoints is not becoming subject to the pressures of the government and union goons the have infiltrated the whole of Illinois politics. Explanation please.
We delete only posts subject to usual community standards including things about racism, gay bashing, etc. and also repetitive comments from a couple people that try to blanket the site every day saying the same things. All comments are now held for moderation because a couple seemingly dedicated trolls recently began putting up multiple racist comments using others’ names then say we are racists if they slip something through. I am aware of none of yours being deleted except some using your name that violated those rules from a different URL. Was that actually you?
These people on the left truly have no moral compass or ethics.
Mark, I misread your reply. I thought you met my a experience at the Oswego high school. I would not use a racist remark. I have fought hard to support programs that get the underprivileged and marginalized out of poverty through educational choice. Sorry for the mistake.
Somebody has been using your name from a different location.
Want to keep blaming “the voters”? Fine. Teachers voted for this as their union leadership.
Gates is 100% a racist. The root of every argument she makes, every interview she gives, every illogical defense of black kids performing poorly in the public school system is to screech racism and white supremacy. So to the racist Gates I ask, how does paying teachers more make any kid smarter/more educated/able to be a functioning member of society? It doesn’t but as the saying goes, follow the money. More money to teachers means the evil Marxist unions will raise the union dues even more so that they can funnel these dues to Marxist legislators to write more laws… Read more »
Abortion in the black community is sadly eugenics in reverse. Educated black women have the fewest children of any demographic group despite having the best chances to provide the most opportunities to their children because they have the highest incomes and live in better neighborhoods. There’s a 2022 study of this, you can google it.* Just anecdotally, I know several highly educated black women and none of them have any children; meanwhile, the culture and welfare state encourages poor black women to raise multiple children in poverty. Abortion mills in the poor black neighborhoods reduce the overall number of black… Read more »
Good God – can anyone else see that, this, this is the problem with CPS? The people in charge at CTU are using this situation to buy more time and money to try and other program. Prioritizing and Teaching CRT over all else is just plain stupid. You don’t need a Phd (Piled Higher & Deeper) to see the problem. They are simply buying more time to collect huge salaries and extend their pension. Close it. Fire them all. Start again.
“You can’t test black children with an instrument that was born to prove their inferiority,” says Stacy D-G. I wish they had asked her to describe what an unbiased test would be like.
The election of a leader by the very teachers she oversees highlights the deep corruption within the system. With the union now wielding the power of the Mayor’s office, any hope for change from city leadership is lost. Unless parents shift their mindset and demand quality education to break the cycle of generational poverty, schools will continue to deteriorate into little more than 12-year holding cells.
how about that a majority of black students are being taught by black teachers who came out of the same failing school system and were pushed thru every grade to get them graduated to go an fail in high school
Just 20.5% of Chicago teachers are black.
Teachers or the entire educational system?
Teachers.
The kids can’t pass standardized tests because 90% of the staff can’t pass the Brother Rice entrance exam. They wouldn’t be able to differentiate between to, two and too or there, their and they’re. You’ll never harvest acorns from mashed potato trees.
In 2021, 100 percent of Chicago public school teachers were evaluated as “proficient or excellent” by an administrator, according to the Illinois Report Card, — the “state’s official source” for information. The same year, students posted a 23.1 percent proficiency rate in English language arts, a 20.6 percent proficiency rate in math and a 29.3 percent proficiency rate in science.
What is wrong with this picture?
The Western Journal 2022
https://www.westernjournal.com/chicago-teachers-acing-performance-evaluations-students-scores-parents-wondering/
Black children at private schools can pass the test.
In June, I attended my grandson’s graduation at Oswego High School, where the class of nearly 800 included a significant number of Black and Brown students. What stood out was the presence of many of them in the honors section, with one young woman of color receiving seven scholarships—the most of any student in the class. The pride on the faces of the parents and grandparents was unmistakable as they celebrated their children’s achievements. Students of all races cheered with genuine enthusiasm as names were announced. It was clear that the supportive school staff and environment played a crucial role… Read more »
Culture matters.
Stacy Davis Gates’ “soft bigotry of low expectations” is only surpassed by her incompetence as a leader of public schoolteachers. Chicago’s population has fallen to its level in 1920 and will keep falling so long as parents know that their children will receive suboptimal educations from Chicago Public Schools.
The Invest In Kids Scholarship Tax Credit Program, enacted in 2017, awarded over $280 million to needy families, giving more than 9,000 children a shot at a brighter future in private education. However, the program expired at the end of the 2023 school year after legislators failed to extend it by simply not putting it on the 2023 agenda. It’s worth noting that while Ms. Gates sends her own son to a private parochial school, the CTU and Illinois legislators deny this opportunity
to disadvantaged children—a despicable and cowardly act.
For more details, check out Wirepoints.
There were a few black students in my class at a Detroit Catholic school in the 1960’s. They did just fine in that environment. Looking back, their parents were ahead of the curve in getting them out of public education.