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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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Show the race baiter the door Hinsdale!
This Hinsdale fiasco is example of how “privileged” folks will virtue-signal with their lawn signs and nodding affirmative support of progressive agenda, that is, unless it personally negatively affects them. These parents won’t tolerate their own kids being negatively affected by ANY institutional actions. They will strongly challenge that same progressive agenda to which they previously gave casual lip-service. In the end, Hinsdale School District parents keenly focus on specific welfare of their own children. And there’s nothing wrong with that. These parents will fight for their kids’ optimum education, emotional well-being and social-class comfort, regardless of any prior virtue-signaling… Read more »
The sup should be fired if she intentionally added language to the letter because she was angry at parents in the village. That’s outrageous. This article is also trash journalism. The journalist/Reporter devotes THREE full paragraphs to quote a seemingly random ‘man on the street’ aka parent with kids in the district who says the entire town is racist. But wait, Reid McCollum is not just some ‘parent with students in the district’ random person with an opinion, he is the local co-leader of the Coalition for a Better Illinois 6, a grassroots progressive organization dedicated to progressive activism and… Read more »
Fixed the headline for you:
“Hinsdale Parents Move To Fire Superintendent That Wanted To Push The Filthy Lies And Hate Of Critical Race Theory”
You’re Welcome!!