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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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What a disgrace. Not putting children first is shameful
Ohhh… Heaven forbid!
Keep those “White Supremacist” ratholes closed FO-EVA!!!
Fire this clown now! Evanston you are better than this!
They actually aren’t better than that.
Reverse racism seems to live in positions of power now and be on the rise. While regular old generic racism is diminishing amongst regular folks who have no time to make a big deal out of it and share the same schools and streets. Its almost like these people want more racism, or think they have to teach even the non racist Whites a lesson just because. This board is simply trying to create or inflate a problem, where none exists, to justify their cause, sad. Evanston Whites are pretty woke already compared to Whites in Bridgeport, Cal City, Marionette… Read more »
Reverse racism doesn’t exist. Even they tell you it doesn’t exist. Because what this sup did is just straight up racist.
And we’re supposed to believe this because some communist said this?
These people are socialist totalitarians, but they are not communists. They more closely resemble the version of socialism that built a party on racial and ethnic hatred, exactly as we see today. They took over Germany in the 1930’s.
Exhibit A for school vouchers.
I really don’t want Evanston HS students screwing up private schools.
The amount of gaslighting that takes place from these commies is astonishing. They say these ideas to elicit responses and trigger you on purpose. It’s best to just ignore and let them scream about their grievances to the clouds.
Good Lord! What has happened to Evanston. A $10 million reparations fund set up by the City Council. The police and mayor can’t get along with Northwestern (not that that’s an easy task given the wacky administration at NU). This nut job running the schools? Any private sector employer would tell an employee spouting hateful nonsense like that to get some counseling or you’re fired.
The Parochial grade school one mile from my home has been fully open since labor day with no issues. Everyone is learning and happy in a safe environment. Families need to RUN from public schools if they can!!!
People in positions of authority used to have shame. Now, they have no shame. There is no place for superintendents to call parents white supremacists.
Superintendent Devon Horton’s white supremacist compensation includes a $250,000 salary and a $24,725 pension pick-up.
Plus reparations
This is a very dangerous discussion.
Who are looking out for the black students now?
If Covid19 has disproportionately affected the black community as we are told
then shouldn’t we think that the closed and lockdown and locked out schools
are doing the same and worse?
As a person of color I say open the schools and let the children be educated.
You have lost two years of quality education in the state of Illinois where you’ve closed the schools and the children are the only ones to suffer.
Such a crime against humanity.
Amen!
Who is looking out for White Students? Nobody Parents, you need to be looking out for your children. Pull them out of These public schools, which are Racist entities brainwashing white’ children to hate their parents, themselves, America, History,
shoving the 1619 project and Social Justice at your children. Get your children out now and tell them the Truth!
It couldn’t possibly because they want their kids in school…i thought it was about the kids? Have these people just lost their minds?
This is about a Communist, SJW Agenda!
Omg you racist individual you need to be removed immediately and taken into custody for a hate crime against white people.
Any leader who brings up racism, misogyny, or white supremacy when discussing an immediate and pressing problem clearly has no idea how to solve the problem.
He’s solving the problem in the way he understands it, so take your racist thoughts elsewhere!
If the “way he understands the problem” is always and only in terms of accusing others of racism, he will not solve any problems.
This super’s framework of the world is consumed with racism. He’s sees all behavior through the prism of racism. If I was a white parent with kids in the district i would pull my kids out and either send somewhere else or homeschool. This super is screaming that white kids will receive a lesser education than Blacks or hispanics so your only choice left is to leave and start legal action as far as I’m concerned.
Some people just don’t get sarcasm!
Oops, sorry!
Yes, you sure don’t! If you are going to use sarcasm it has to be able to have a “hook” that lets us know it is sarcasm. Your statements do not!
If you can
Get your children OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Expressing our opinion is Racist? Ha, ha, ha, come up with something new, that reaction has been used by Communists and the Left for Years.
Didn’t you know we are all labeled racists, even when we aren’t? That’s reverse racism/discrimination.
This guy is the top dog of the District? Wow. Obviously that was not a well thought out choice.The man is delusional, uninformed and appears he himself is showing racist tendencies. What happened to “treat all the way we would be treated”? But maybe he is.
No matter what or how you feel, this is the Trend. Most School Boards are a bunch of Communists. They do not care what the TAXPAYER has to say. Just as Pelosi shoved Communist Obamacare at us, these school boards are going to shove the weird, SJW, unhinged lifestyles at your children.
GET YOUR CHILDREN OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Yes, they are. And if you manage to get on the board as a conservative, you are mocked, doxxed, shamed and disregarded by the local media that writes hit pieces regularly.