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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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Some of the highest cost per student and some of the lowest results.
Must mean the taxpayers are not funding enough money. Give all educators a huge raise and this will solve everything.
This is going to happen soon, payback for all the CTU votes by the new mayor of the Chitty.
Since the teachers are rated as exceptionally good then it is the students fault…it is as simple as that.
Bender, all the teachers are above average….
Miseducating Black students is part of the IL Democrat plan — keep a permanent underclass of the poor that can be farmed for votes every 4 years, with the cookie cutter campaign blather about phony systemic racism. If there is systemic racism in IL, it is the Democrat policies that make Black communities suffer.