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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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Bust CTU and you will then see education begin in Chicago Public Schools.
Wow…It is really difficult to listen to these CTU people talk about education. They want to portray themselves as experts and highly qualified…but at the same time be paralyzed, unable to get anything done. So ok you highly qualified, highly educated, highly compensated educators…, do the job. Figure out the plan, communicate the plan and execute the plan. They spend most of their time telling us how hard it is, bitching about money that they don’t have and resources that they don’t have and how the Federal Government isn’t telling them what to do, etc. Every business and organization has… Read more »
“You can’t put a price tag on the safety of children” – Gates
“We are here to demand the defunding of the police to get CPD out of CPS” – Gates
Seems like there’s already a price tag.
Stacy Davis Gates is running for mayor, watch it. She is already promising free housing, free money and free everything to CPS parents because of years of systemic racism and discrimination. The CTU has been putting out a terrible product for years and it’s time to be completely dismantled.
She’d make a great mayor!
Try telling these lazy slobs they will be back at work when school starts or in the unemployment line
Not a Flannery fan so I pay no attention to what he does.