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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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If you don’t like the outcome, stop measuring. Somebody ax a question, just shrug and point.
Thats affirmative!
Equity too!
All students achieve the same low level of learning, except perhaps those at the magnet schools. Tomorrow’s activists in training.
CPS kids deserve more!
It’s the progressive solution to all failure- change the metrics.
So now it’s even more difficult to assess individual CPS schools. Probably better to assume they’re all garbage.
That’s not an assumption, they are garbage but good for baby sitting!
Chicago Is Trying To Cover Up For Failing Schools
At +$30,000 spent per student per yr🤩🤩
Welcome to the “Everybody Gets a Trophy” system. No longer do we aspire to be the best of the best. CPS will settle for “We’re okay at best, and we don’t care if we suck”.
woke (especially convenient Illinois style) = no accountability
In its effort to avoid accountability the CPS and its accomplices, the CTU, are going to change their rating system. Henceforth, every school will be rated A+. Problem solved, although a majority of CPS students still can’t read at grade level.
They will still be passed on to the next grade anyway. It is happening in Rockford. Here’s an article from a while back.
https://www.wrex.com/news/13-investigates/13-investigates-rps-205-teachers-say-failing-students-still-get-moved-on-to-next-grade/article_8b8b9850-7042-52d4-8301-530f0b8293c2.html
They’re well-positioned to become highly paid city, county, or state workers. Some of them will make important financial decisions on your money, even though they’ll have math and economics skill levels of a grade-school child.