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Altogether CPS is eliminating 102 crossing guard positions, a third of which only serve private school students. CPS did not say how much it will save through these reductions. CPS had 732 crossing guard positions last year, at a cost of $18.4 million.
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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So if a private school and a public school use the same crossing guard do they check ID,s
What’s the loss of a few Catholic kids to the Jacobins?
Reduce admin by enough to retain the crossing guards.
18.4 million for crossing guards for part time and 8 months of work !!!
Yes cut the low cost crossing guards and not the 9,000 teachers hired during the highest drop in student enrollment.