Editorial: As the CPS-CTU standoff ends, a thank you to teachers who defied the union and put kids first – Chicago Tribune*

"Thank you, Mt. Greenwood teachers, for understanding that even in the midst of a wrenching, two-year pandemic, the mission at CPS must always be twofold: Keep children healthy, and keep their intellectual growth alive and thriving. Both can be achieved concurrently, as long as sensible, science-informed COVID safety measures combine with the understanding that the best way to undo the damage done by remote learning is to commit to in-class instruction. Thank you for having the courage to say no to CTU leadership, which far too often has opted for brinkmanship over constructive dialogue, clout-building over the fate of CPS children."

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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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