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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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All done because Blacks and Hispanics have disproportionately low test scores. Now they can be let in while Whites and Asians will find it more difficult when equally qualified.
If the parents of Whites and Asians are too stupid too figure this out and protest then it will continue.
Based upon the quality of the Illinois public school system one can easily appreciate where the desire to eliminate standardized tests evaluating the students comes from.
Illinois and it’s schools are lost forever!
Is Covid test optional too?
More discrimination against white and Asian students to allow more people of color to surpass them in college admissions. Minorities are already preferred At Loyola University Stritch Schiller of medicine to the detriment of White ultimately more qualified students. The test was removed by LaToya so the universities can allow more unqualified minorities to be admitted. It’s absurd, unfair and illegal.
In so many ways, the USA is engaged in a race to the bottom. What is the hurry? Can’t we as a a nation discuss this honestly, or are we too far gone with one party dictatorship controlled by Chinese money? No more standards, no more meritocracy, no more history, no culture, no more nation…who wins? Not me, not you.
We are entirely reordering our society for lowest scoring citizens.
IL is a blue state SAT test taking state now, we abandoned the ACT years ago. The SAT is given to every graduating high school student in Illinois and I believe it is a requirement to graduate, given to all Juniors every spring. Which really shows the stupid rationale behind this. Rep. Greenwood says that college admissions shouldn’t be about filling out bubbles on a Saturday but the test is not given Saturdays. It’s given during the school week, which is the first major issue. The second is that IL state universities no longer have to use the SAT scores… Read more »
Your analysis excludes private school graduates, which are many in Illinois. In Central Illinois most high achieving private school graduates attend college out of state due to improved quality and scholarships as well as campus ‘normalcy’.
‘Go Woke, Go Broke’ applies to higher education. Illinois has decided to Go Woke.
So you do NOT have to submit ACT scores to UIUC with your application. Fine. The article doesn’t say what the admittance process will be – Will you be admitted to the College of Business or College of Engineering w/o ACT scores when 99.9% of applicants will have them?
I’ll just say it out loud – This is a subtle piece of legislation from Pritzker to enable discrimination in college admissions of Asians.
The asian discrimination is an unintended consequence. Asians are the smallest minority of IL students. The goal of this law is to admit more BIPOC and if it is due to asian discrimination, then that’s a good thing too. https://reports.collegeboard.org/pdf/2019-illinois-sat-suite-assessments-annual-report.pdf Page 12 of this document shows the breakdown of scores by race and gender. The scores really aren’t good for anyone other than the 7,500 ‘asian’ juniors who scored an average of 1181. There just aren’t enough asians to make a difference. There were 64,000 white takers, with a 1088 average; and 36,000 hispanics with a 951, and 19,000 blacks… Read more »
Asians (a huge # of non Americans) make up a huge % of IL Champaign STEM students. In fact, when doing group activities, they speak to each other in Chinese and most refuse to talk/work with the white students. so the white and non asian students are more likely to work together.
Doug,
The non-asian americans are paying full tuition to attend UIUC Stem programs. The state knows it will do nothing to upset that apple cart.
SOrry meant to say non-american asians are paying full tuition…
Do non-Asian Asians pay full tuition or just Asian-Asians from Asia?
ha! Depends if they have in-state residency or not.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-university-insure-drop-chinese-students-211633423.html
The Chinese students refuse to assimilate.
Typical garbage from the pathetic lefties. If they can’t do well on a test, then the test simply isn’t fair. Using this logic we’re all doomed. Do you want doctors, nuclear scientists and engineers that can do their jobs, or do we just give those jobs out to the idiots.
Once I got as far as LeToya, I stopped reading.
ACT and SAT are just “bubbles they filled in on a Saturday”? The degrees will not be worth the paper they are printed on.