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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 not extend the school year. The money is not there. Had the teachers not been paid to sit home the money would be there but it has been spent. The money simply isn’t there. Now at the same time the teachers want the school year extended to put even more money into their pockets that they might need to pay credit card bills used for things like vacations taken during their remote teaching hiatus. They need to be taught that they can not expect an extended school year bailout for their personal bank accounts if and when they feel… Read more »
Fire them all!
The results they achieve in schools area F!
More charter schools
They want safety? For all teachers I propose… mandatory vaccine, mandatory twice a week testing, mandatory masks, mandatory closure of teachers lounges, mandatory spacing, mandatory weekly contact tracing interviews. These communists want state control so much, let them get a taste of it. Non compliance with the above results in firing, for endangering the children.
Also, mandatory workplace attendance. Do they really think that with state control they can decide not to work? I guess they never heard “be careful what you wish for…”
The lazy union parasites will complain next that the vaccine isn’t perfect so they can’t go back to “work”. There is no pleasing these animals
And who in the hell is going to pay for this, huh!
How about no work no vaccine?