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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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Folks, don’t confuse education with a government jobs program.
Maybe they shouldn’t have fired staff for not taking fake vaccines. Just a thought.
Have other states lowered the requirements for teachers, subs and paraprofessionals the way IL has? And the change from requiring a Bachelor’s degree to just 90 Hours of college education, is that for substitutes or for full-time teachers?
Who’s gonna sexualize and groom all those children? Who’s gonna teach them to hate God, America, and anyone of a different race?
I understand the shortage. Who would want to work for school districts or with radical reachers who are trying to groom our children? Funny how we never hear of so called normal teachers pushing back against the radicals in their schools. Weak and pathetic. They just go along with it. I know a number of families that now do not trust the public school system in Illinois and have chosen to home school.
As a teacher in CPS who pushes back, I can attest it is not for the thin-skinned or faint-of-heart. There are many who agree with me, but only in hushed whispers behind closed doors. They will never speak up at a staff meeting out of fear of ???. Apparently, strength in numbers is just lip service in their view. I don’t get it. It’s depressing sometimes.
As for the radical teachers, we will only get more and more of them. Crazy begets (and attracts) crazy.
It’s good to hear you are pushing back – you have real courage. In the early 2000s I recall sitting in an instructor development session (junior college level) when the topic of failing students approaching the instructor a couple weeks before semester end asking how they can redeem their failing grade. A few suggestions came up: special project, essay writing, extra credit, etc. Then I spoke up: “Fail ’em, life’s not going to coddle them and we shouldn’t either. We’re supposed to be preparing them for life.” There was a gasp and a few moments of uncomfortable silence, then the… Read more »
Huge salute to you, Waggs.
Agree with others, thank you for pushing back Waggs.