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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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Lock them out and send the police to maintain order on the picket lines. Don’t let them back until you get an agreement to fix things and make them take COVID tests. See if they can show up for 60 days of windy winter.
Lock out their VPN / Zoom accounts too, suspend door badges, the works. What does Lori have to lose? Scare em, shake em.
In my Florida county, kids have been in school for the last year and a half. In person learning. They are not filling up ICU beds, they are not dying in droves, they are being kids. The people who ARE filling up the beds are the old timers (vaxxed and unvaxxed) who really were not in the best of shape or health in the first place.
The teachers know parents wont put up much of a fuss, so they can walk. They also know Lori will roll over, so they can walk. They know their paychecks will still come. They know their time off will be reimbursed. Its just what happens when there are no consequences for govt employees. I know a guy who works for a town, hasnt been to his office for 3 years, he’s spent the last 3 years building a new home for himself using all the contractors he hires for his village. Literally getting paid a salary to do nothing except… Read more »
They can all go to hell.
There goes my New Year Resolution!
A firm resolute hand could lock them out, eliminate their benefits (if CBA permit) then hunker down for the legal battle. Might gain a few yards by next August and maybe even reverse the trend of utter failure of schools.
Lori’s got a choice to make. She can let CTU walk and flood the streets with teens and young adults. Lori can fight CTU with the same outcome. I think this calls for an immediate press conference. Standby for a dog and pony show. Lori’s tap dancing shoes will be sparking like a titanium driver.
This is where the CTU can be broken up it won’t happen but it should if Lil Lori had the BALLS she claims to have
I gotta have more cow bell!!
Early retirement. We know already that govt employees live every day of their working life fantasizing about retirement. Covid fear, fear mongering, cowardness, submission, etc is a dream come true for teachers if it brings early retirement. “Working from home” is just that.
They simply refuse to work for their overly generous salaries.
The CTU is trying to eke out the last bit of blood from the covid rock…
They envision the last half of the school year, teaching remotely from free states like FL…
Just like their hero AOC, who would love to do her job remotely from FL…
The good ship lollipop is about to sink.
The angry wimp who is playing mayor doesn’t have the guts to take on the CTU. She will talk tough but will cave to them in the end. It is what she has always done. In her case past performance DOES predict future results.
Do it Do it Do it. The pandemic has exposed your criminal charade to the parents and taxpayers. You can’t hide your sloth and thievery behind children anymore. Keep it up. Sunshine will finally bust your vile Union.
I’d really like to see the enrollment totals per school for all of the Chicago High Schools. Some of them, Harper and Lindbloom, Marshall and Collins and Crane, Fenger and Carver, CVS and Bowen could easily be combined to save money and reduce staff but for the neighborhood gang affiliations.
You’re assuming CPS even knows! Gang affiliations is school spirit! Rah Rah!
Enrollment is posted on the CPS website. I think some of those high schools you mentioned are already closed. Lindbloom and CVS have relatively healthy enrollments. The others, not so much.
Thanks! Some of these #’s are incredibly tiny.
Expect crime to rise throughout the rest of the week. If school doesn’t resume full time this week and in the weeks going forward, many of these kids may never return to school until next year.
This party is just about over, but CTU is going to see if there’s any way they can take the last half of the school year off. It sure is going to be hard to go back to 100% in class teaching where the results actually matter. They’ve had almost two years of everybody gets an “A” and everyone graduates.