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While the mayor and union appear in lockstep on their vision for the school system, the city likely won’t have the money for more staffing and resources in schools. So the CTU says it’s shifting its target from City Hall to Springfield.
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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The CTU comes downstate to cause trouble they should use them as manure in the fields.
does the whoopin CTU took on BCH limit their influence in Springfield?….. (after spending $400gs or $700gs in members dues on BCH)
LET IT BE KNOWN – The president of the Chicago Teachers Union LIVES in INDIANA!
CPS should declare bankruptcy and cancel all union contracts and start over.