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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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CPS and Lori can bragging that CPS students graduate shovel ready for a life of drudgery, no wonder they turn to crime!
It’s too bad for the children. They want them dumb. Dumb and hungry make the best soldiers
Only thing the pandemic did was to open eyes to how APPALING our gov’t school system is. OF course children are not doing well back in the classroom. They got a taste of freedom, and are discouraged to be back in these classroom prisons. Btw: did you know gov’t schools are grooming your children sexually?
https://newdiscourses.com/2021/11/groomer-schools-1-long-cultural-marxist-history-sex-education/
I think we need a new concept for educating children at public expense. The present model is too expensive for the outcome levels actually achieved. We need some combination of putting more of the right resources where there is greater likelihood of successful achievement and fewer resources where the expense clearly has a low return on the investment. Let’s get real: we need to stop with the assumption that every child can become a doctor, lawyer, scentist, etc. Its a waste of limited resources and too much of a burden for taxpayers to continue to bare indefinitely.
James, I completely agree with you. Current wisdom, however, goes in exactly the opposite direction, and shows no sign of relenting. Realistic expectations are the key. I believe almost everyone can and should learn basic skills, but different skill and interest levels will produce different outcomes.The education establishment wants to deny that reality. Instead, they point to it as an indictment of society and a reason for ever greater sums “invested” in education fantasies.
Wow, who would have thought we would long for the days of mediocrity?
How low do scores need to fall before we recognize the need for a complete overhaul of the public education system? Randi Weingarten et al: Clearly this is not working.
It is working exactly as they have planned. The dumbing down has been going on for decades as is evident in the number of sheeple walking around.
“About 18% of third graders met or exceeded standards in English and math this year, compared to 2019 when 39.4% were proficient in English and 32.9% in math”
Remote learning was a complete failure. A third grader who can’t read at grade level by age 9 is unlikely ever to succeed and will always be behind.
I speak of the Brazilification of IL, in the future we are going to have millions of poor and illiterate youths marching in the streets, while the upper middle class and rich isolate themselves in rich conclaves far removed from the unwashed masses.
“while the upper middle class and rich isolate themselves in rich conclaves far removed from the unwashed masses.” Until the woke crowd demands that so many units of affordable housing are built in those rich enclaves. The progressives want to force the upper middle class to take these people into their neighborhoods. If school choice is ever allowed in Illinois, they will also allow inner city kids to go to school at Hinsdale Central and New Trier type schools. The truly rich will always be able to avoid the rabble but soon the upper middle class won’t be able to… Read more »
Hinsdale and New Trier are geographically distant from inner city schools, so I don’t see hoards of semi-literate inner city students inundating top tier schools. And quite frankly, inner city school parents have show little interest in their children’s education anyways.
The hot spots will be the good school in a suburb adjacent to a suburb with not so good not-so-nice schools. Chicago, OPRF, Chicago/Park Ridge and Niles, Aurora students flooding into naperville, joliet students to new lennox, and so on, Highland into Deerfield or Lake Forest, Zion/Waukegan into Gurnee and Lindenhurst.
I don’t disagree with you that it would not flood the schools but that’s also the reason there is a push for more affordable housing so that these families can become your neighbors. My point is that the woke will not let you retreat from this problem. They don’t want you to be comfortable. The bigger the problem becomes the more they will demand it in the name of equity.
You may have a point. As for the affordable housing issue, Biden has been trying to ban, nationwide, new single family zoning. The progressives in my town have been vocal about this for quite some time, and thankfully city council is a bunch of old not woke people, and they soundly rejected the idea. My kid’s school actually teaches this crap too, they had an assignment on building a better future through high density, affordable housing. I wrote the school board and told them that they were moronic because our city council unanimously REJECTED this concept in a vocal hearing… Read more »
Past social engineering by the Government has been a dismal failure in the past but the parody is continued on as a vote buying scheme by the political parties. Consider for example Pruitt Igoe in the mid 50s to assorted projects built into today…engineered failures is all they have been.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gRuyhf2opY&t=4s&ab_channel=RenewingAmericanCity