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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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The more money the CTU gets the less and less the students learn.
Stacey Gates would never send her children to Public Schools. She knows better.
CTU is embarrassed by their education failure and doesn’t want competition.
CTU is interested in one thing only and it’s not teaching children. It’s about getting as MUCH MONEY from taxpayers as possible. The
The notion that your kids belong to this race baiter that can’t pay her water bill, tried to screw the taxman and sends her “victims of systemic racism children” to a private school is beyond disgusting. But “hey,”say some, “you elected her!” Um, no we didn’t, her minions in fear of losing their cushy teaching gigs ( some in 1/4 populated schools ) did. That hardly constitutes an overwhelming mandate.
You realize the news stations build up Gates, but I believe she used school choice enrolling her child in a school she said that was best for him. And they never bring that up. And that’s why Chicago press suck.
School Choice makes so much sense. The greedy blood sucking union and District will do and say anything to stop it…that in itself should tell you it makes sense.
But hey – its all about the kids – right Ms Gates?