Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
While this new advisory referendum could be nothing more than a political distraction, it could also be that lawmakers are gauging Illinoisans’ appetite for another bite at a progressive income tax hike – this time with lower property taxes as a sweetener.
At $1.5 million per job, the new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs.
Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss the university student protests erupting across the nation on the Israel/Palestine conflict, why it’s so dangerous for society if the media abandons facts in favor of narratives, why that allows government to spin away the problems like crime and financial crises, why it causes the voting public to become apathetic, and more.
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Looking at the graph in the article shows the Latino and system wide decline started at the same time a certain angry, foul mouthed, bloated land whale took over the union and then accelerated as her bolshevik lap dog took the reigns. It’s almost like parents of all races hate communists indoctrinating their children while holding the families hostage with the never ending threat of strikes, slow downs and work stoppages.
“The vast majority of the students we see leaving are leaving Chicago,” Interesting article. The author and other interviewees speculate that the students have moved to different neighborhoods, or moved out of Chicago to Cicero or Aurora. But are the students really leaving Chicago? Maybe they are just chronically absent. The chronically absenteeism rate jumped exponentially during the pandemic and did not fix itself. For example, in Cleveland, nearly half of students have missed 10% or more of school days just so far this year. A distant relative in Minnesota told me that the quiet scandal in her school… Read more »
Stop the tribalism and recognize MLK’s essential individualism — content of one’s character. Discard race and ethnicity and the rest of identity politics and consider each person’s interests and skills, recognizing that people mature at different ages and that many grow up with disadvantages which work against their easy adaptation to our society. If we are going to retrain teachers, at least educate them about human development in a segregated society and provide a reality matrix that discredits the idea that utopian ideas can work successfully. Humans have already tried cultural revolution and it has failed. Land reform and expropriation… Read more »