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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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Don’t ever confuse a government jobs program with education.
In Chicago I’ll even go one better and declare the entire CTU/CPS system “systemic racism” based on the outcome of their “education.” Thousands of black kids will never be able to support themselves because of this racket.
Amendment 1 empowers educators and school staff to put students first by negotiating for smaller class sizes, improved technology for students, and additional classroom resources. These things have been proven to increase student learning help teachers teach, and improve our schools.
Don’t burn down the public schools. Instead vote yes for Amendment 1. Vote yes 4 workers.
Whatever you say, Rich.
Rich Miller,s people on the loose today since his website is closed for the holiday
Ah, that’s it!
Thanks Mr Miller for your contribution.
Put students first? Sorry, but it’s crystal clear who unions put first and it isn’t the students. That line doesn’t work any more with anyone who pays attention.
For the down voting slime from CTU: Decertify CPS. Bust CTU, Bust IFT. School vouchers for all. Fire the morons of CTU. No one else will hire the dolts of CTU; that’s why these leeches of society are so frantic to crush this story.
But, but… Didn’t JB save the world? At least twice?
JUST WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE INEQUITIES IN IL’S SAT SCORES!
https://mobile.twitter.com/monitoringbias/status/1577324012014796800
This Tweet about Michigan SAT scores has been making the rounds on the internet. It says that 0% of 9,980 African-Americans scored above a 1,400 on their SATs. Because Michigan schools are failing students.
https://reports.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/2021-illinois-sat-suite-of-assessments-annual-report.pdf Page 6, of 2021 SAT Suite Annual Report IL shows IL scores. The public school systems in these big cities take otherwise smart children and turn them into mush brained morons. There’s no reason why scores shouldn’t be distributed at least somewhere equally among all kids. But they are not. Because schools have completely utterly failed our most needy students, and filled their brains with mush, and progressive nonsense about pronouns, that they can’t even score above 1000 on the SATs. If after 11 years of schooling these kids can’t even reach the bare minimum level of knowledge, that’s… Read more »
Amen, and that it should
If the KKK wanted to design a system to keep minority children illiterate, uneducated, poor, and permanently dependent on welfare they’d design a system 100% identical in every aspect to the current CPS and CTU.
What is so sad is the inability of the folks most impacted by this tragedy to see the truth. Your children will remain uneducated, unemployable, and incapable of ever supporting themselves because you decided to prostitute yourself for the promise of freebies and because life is hard.