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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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CTU is not about education, it is all about MONEY. Stacey Gates sends her children to private schools.
Like rust and other rot, the CTU never sleeps.
CTU is only protecting their own interests. They have never been about students or education. It must be embarrassing to CTU that charter schools are better than them with better outcomes.
But hey…its all about the kids.