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"Confronted by the media regarding the lack of (CPS students') family involvement with his decisions, his administration’s response was as paternalistic as it was dismissive: 'We haven’t asked because we already know.'...Dramatic changes in education strategies, especially those proposing to radically reconfigure the educational landscape, demand robust debate and input from those they impact most."
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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