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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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A CTU Rally is a collection of terrorist thieves. CTU are neither teachers nor a union. Bust this parasitic mob now.
Teach young people to question their sexuality, that work is evil, white people owe you something and a life devoid of personal responsibility is utopia.
CTU rallies a couple dozen of its redshirts to continue to extort taxpayers from Carbondale, Normal, Crete, Freeport, Creve Coeur, yes, even Belvidere. This arm twisting for the rest of the state is merely to pony up for the criminal overspend on CPS.
Instead of focusing on student achievement and skills, CPS focuses on how to shield illegal immigrants from law enforcement as well as keeping ‘under-studented’ schools open primarily for the benefit of CTU members employed there.
Simple answer: “NO.
Requiring them to actually TEACH should be the priority.
Unfortunately teaching and outcomes aren’t on CTU/CPS’s agenda – it’s about union jobs.