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There are only 176 full student attendance days in the 2024-2025 CPS calendar. If CTU gets its way, teachers could be out of the classroom for 26 of those days for vacation time, sick days, personal days and the new medical release day. That’s nearly 15 percent of the time kids are in school.
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The taxpayers are the student that never learns.
Nothing beats teaching a Zoom class from a Florida beach….
Try googling to see how much CPS, or any of Illinois other +600 school districts for that matter, spends on substitutes or # of classroom days covered by substitutes……guess what, it’s TOP SECRET for all the astronomical tax $ spent
Based on the test scores of CPS students I was under the impression that they never showed up to work.
What a sick group.
The appalling thing about this negotiation point is that the CTU scum claim to be “working” on the other days. When 6 in 10 kids don’t function at grade level it is pretty clear that CTU is a complete and total failure. For the good of Chicago kids fire these failures, bust CTU and school vouchers for all.
sooner the better