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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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The poor are always shit on by government, one way or another. Teachers are rewarded for nonperformance. No other working place does this, and for good reason. The results are just terrible, and CPS does not give a damn.
The article does a good job pointing out that race and income level are major factors in the success of the student. What it doesn’t do is show how offering a private education will improve outcomes. Someone that comes from a good home with parents that have a good income and a strong work ethic are going to outperform the welfare kids where the family isn’t educated or may not have a strong work ethic. Offering up a private education to these same low performers won’t improve outcomes it will only cost the taxpayers even more money. Does anyone believe… Read more »
According to our leading intellectuals, it’s structural and system racism that explains the scoring gap between blacks/latinks and asians/whites. You shall not dare criticize the black or latinks culture, that’s just perpetuating and imposing your own privilege and society’s white supremacist values on other people.
The CPS-CTU symbiosis is my definition of systemic racism.
The black community should be the biggest supporter of school choice programs and vouchers since they can see the result of their agenda up close and personal. Why they’re not is the 8th Wonder of the World.
Blacks are barely a third (35.8%) of CPS’s 322,106 enrolled students. Both the number of blacks enrolled and total enrollment has been dropping precipitously for decades. Most blacks in the Chicago area long ago made the decision to move with their feet to greener pastures and better schools mostly in the south suburbs or out of state entirely. The small number of blacks who remain in the city, and attend CPS, have a poor reputation among other blacks, who look at them like they are crazy. Just like most whites look at the progressive urban whites who stay in the… Read more »
That speaks volumes about our ‘leading intellectuals.’ Born to poor working class, we went to parochial schools and my siblings and I all prospered in spite of our humble, and I mean HUMBLE beginnings. We were never taught that our circumstances were anyone’s responsibility, but our own. Did our schoolwork because it was expected – after all, M&D worked to pay the rent, our tuition, and keep food on our table. Those who didn’t had to carry the dreaded teacher’s note home and face the consequences there. A simpler time and when it comes to education, a much better time.… Read more »
The CTU harms students, as usual