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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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Never happen . Do you know why ? Because the public schools would be empty. What parent in their right mind would trust the CPS ?
Do you honestly think there are enough schools for that to ever happen? If you upsized, who do you think would end up working at those schools as teachers? That’s right, the old public school teachers. They would organize and collectively bargain for better wages and benefits just as they do in the public schools. How much influence would the state have over those newly founded schools? Quite a bit since they would be the ones paying. The state would do quite a bit to influence when children could be suspended, expelled, passed on to the next grade, etc… It… Read more »
That is why I still paid my taxes and paid to send my kids to go to private schools. I saw how the public schools worked.
Completely understand. What makes private schools work so well is their ability to remove high needs students, disciplinary problems and not tolerate any behavior that doesn’t align with their purpose of providing a great education. They also don’t have to follow some of the curriculum that is driven by politics of the majority. Now, how happy would you have been with their school it that same school starting allowing all the behavioral children to enroll? Sometimes it’s worth it to actually pay money to separate your kids from those that can’t or won’t pay. That’s why even with school choice,… Read more »
School choice needs to be an option for students so that students are not forced into failed public schools. Parents have the to send their kids to schools that educate students , not indoctrinate kids.
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