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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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Good article on how Rochester, NY has dealt with declining enrollment.
American public schools face an existential enrollment crisis : NPR
serious comment. Thai teachers raises to student learning outcomes. This would be a fair assessment and take care of the surplus problem. Student outcomes are outrageous. Teachers association/union never mentions this. How can we possibly address other problems concerning Chicago without first giving all students and equal opportunity to learn, not equity, opportunity. Bill Roe.
Your solution would lead to lowering academic outcome expectations to levels currently achievable rather than striving to do better. It seems desirable as you’ve stated it, but in the real world of how it will evolve mediocrity will be the educators’ approved aspirational level. Yeah, let’s applaud when politician’s applaud a 5% improvement in standardized test scores!
Khan Academy would be a viable option. If I’m not mistaken Proviso East is using them in a few classes like math. I will check to make sure but is this option ever brought up for all the schools at CPS?
Khan is catching on in schools across the country albeit slowly but nonetheless anything helps. Math seems to be the course they are using the most as this link implies.
https://blog.khanacademy.org/more-than-280-school-districts-enroll-in-khan-academy-nwea-mastery-based-learning-offerings/
Billion dollar deficit and CPS union demands large raises, no staff cuts because of declining enrollment, no closing of fully staffed schools with 10% of an authorized student body. Makes sense to me.
2. “… expand health care and dental coverage without increasing costs for employees.” Better wording: “… expand health care and dental coverage by increasing costs for taxpayers.”
How are raises or 5% (or 6%, 8%, 10%, etc?) yearly teachers raises adressed in EBF?