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Such a feat will require solutions to staffing shortfalls, school capacity limitations and an increase to the state’s nearly $600 million early childhood education block grant program. “If universal meant that the state was going to help pay for the preschool rooms, I could understand it, but I couldn’t accommodate any more kids than I have now,” Burr Ridge Principal Tracy Ritchey said. “Because preschool rooms are different than other rooms — the sinks, bathrooms and all sorts of stuff..."
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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Damn the cost! Full speed ahead!
Did JB ever put together a plan for his magnanimous gesture? I seriously doubt it – stupid head chicken.
Forget about the kids, I thought jb was vowing to convert all preschool workers into public sec/ seiu workers?
Toddler indoctrination camps. This will put daycare providers out of business in favor of union, government employee preschool teachers.