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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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Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey, who said Tuesday that the standardized assessments “deny qualified Black and brown students access to a fully adequate education… Instead, our students need the resources to unpack and recover from the trauma of the pandemic and the decades of inequity that preceded it,…” Sharkey’s pronouncements are a meaningless word salad with no underpinning in fact. Just how does testing to determine if a student has achieved an understanding of subject matter deny them a “fully adequate education?” I would argue that to not understand a student’s progress and take remedial action, if necessary, is… Read more »
School choice is the only way to break this stalemate.
Kids assigned to under performing schools aren’t being offered a “fully adequate education.” To believe otherwise is nonsense.
CHICAGO PARENTS … Stand up for your kids and make your voices heard – the kids are counting on you!
Downvoted because you do have a choice. Move out of IL. Quit funding the BS.
Illinois Fake Teachers Say Tests Are Racist White Supremacy
CTU has weaponized mediocrity.
More B.S. from the CTU.
Standardized tests are a report card on schools. It should be a tool to identify areas that the schools need to address. Instead Sharkey makes it racial – what a line of B.S.
Including individual teachers
Actually standardized tests such as the SAT were put in place in part to combat exclusionary policies, particularly against minorities such as Jews who were discriminated against at top schools. Poor students with academic promise benefitted from the tests – I did so immensely myself. And Sharkey – connected to the Royal Caribbean cruise line billions, a business which exploits workers to no end – many of them black and brown – is wrong to blame the tests. It is the students performance on the tests which is the problem. Frankly, studying minority performance on standardized tests such as NAEP… Read more »
I can’t find the link, but the CA public university system has been itching to get rid of test scores for a while, so a few years back, they commissioned a study expecting that the results would show that standardized tests were ‘racist’. The study came back showing that standardized tests actually helped smart minorities stand out from crowd and benefited them greatly i.e. there’s a big difference in intelligence between two BIPOC applicants both with straight A’s but different SAT scores. The CA system reviewed the study, and despite the findings, jettisoned the use of standardized tests anyways. Now… Read more »