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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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Check the attendance records . I’m sure they are padding the numbers marking kids in school when they are absent to keep getting the federal money. Need a good audit of attendance records .
If you go to the pool everyday and find out the pool is still broken and you won’t be able to swim, eventually you stop going to the pool.
Teachers have learned that when the parents, the administration & the union pressure them to promote students regardless of their competence, that it’s not worth the fight to hold students back. This ultimately results in an increasingly incompetent workforce.
The state is lowering the necessary standards to prove competency. What more could go wrong?
Administrative jobs generally have no. tenure clause protections in those roles in IL atvleast.. Thus, the school superintendent and all his subordinates are subject to dismissal or returning to a teacher assignment, perhaps. Consequently administrators serve at the public’s favor or suffer the consequences. Probably none want the lower status, salary and perk of that. So, “squeaky wheel” parents usually get a dose of “oil” to soothe every unhappy complaint that arises. Logic of the moment aside the teacher’s side of it generally will be the losing side.
Its a collective. Kids, teachers parents. None of them care
The kids know the teachers don’t care. Bad teachers don’t get fired, and good ones don’t get hired. I don’t blame the students for not wanting to sit in a class with those dimwits. Question is who will change education to actually benefit the kids and not the teachers union?
They get passed through the system no matter what. Does not matter if they get an education, most do not get an education but just a piece of paper that the taxpayers paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for. The CPS is robbing the students of an education and the taxpayer of millions of dollars. There is little future in today’s job market without a good education, so they end up in the criminal business. Expect crime to stay high and grow in Chicago, no other opportunities are around for most CPS graduates.