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Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about why Chicago police stations continue to house migrants, how eliminating cash bail will incentivize more criminal activity and harm minorities the most, how even “elite” school districts like New Trier have fallen into mediocrity, and more.
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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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Illinois public schools are now lost in the woke agenda and the amount of union communists that run the schools are tough to overthrow as the school boards are woke as well. This is a national problem but it is worse in urban areas. Rural America has a sense of values and the amount of radical union communists teachers who are activist more than they are educators typically have no desire to be in a small town. It’s not by happenstance that many LGBT have radical ideas which a small town would identify quickly and then look to remove them… Read more »
The problem is much deeper. This is intentional, nation wide discrimination against the current generation. It’s not just limited to Chicago or IL. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/state-test-finds-zero-students-proficient-math-40/
I think a lot has to do with the parents and in so many cases the parents have just given up and moved on to homeschooling. Sad thing is they pay the taxes then have to teach their children too. Life in Illinois never gets any better it seems.
There’s nothing wrong with public education that a few thousand nuns couldn’t fix.
Yep, those Catholics definitely didn’t harm any kids lol
Now do CPS.
New Trier Curriculum Is Drafted By Black Lives Matter
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/new-trier-high-school-avoids-diversity-like-the-plague/
Schools are not evaluated for being excellent. The key attribute is wokeness! The race to the bottom is underway. Enjoy the ride.