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According to a copy of the Jan. 26 police report, William Hozian, principal of Stevenson Elementary School, reported that CTU President Stacy Davis Davis-Gates spoke to attendees at a union meeting and said, “In talking to my Stevenson brothers and sisters, I told them they should punch their principal in the face.” Two witnesses provided written statements about the comment to police.
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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Maybe the principal wanted to emulate Joe Clark from the movie Lean on Me. Someone has to start the ball rolling but that would be a big NO-NO.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/30/us/joe-clark-patterson-school-obit-trnd/index.html