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“I think we’ve got to keep talking about it,” CPS CEO Pedro Martinez said about a student vaccine mandate. He expressed disappointment the issue had not been taken up at the federal level.
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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I read that only 1/4 of kids in Cook County are vaccinated. Probably even less in CPS. This mandate is flat-out “get back on the plantation” racist. Parents don’t want their kids vaccainted. But leftist freak, and failed associate professor of history, Elizabeth Todd-Breland, thinks SHE knows more than parents.
Go ahead and try to impose a mandate, see how well that goes over, when 2/3rd of kids don’t show up for class on the first day of the school.
Hands off The Children. Enough is Enough.
Kids are not at risk and don’t need some experimental shot. If you are an adult who is triple vaxxed, wearing a KN95 and still don’t feel safe in school – do us all a favor and take your cushy CTU retirement package and leave the kids alone!
This will be interesting. Currently, MMR vaccines are “mandated” for all school children. I use quotes there because, many years ago, I asked my principal why we kept sending home “you are not compliant, and will be excluded from school” notices for kids who have not provided immunization records, and then never actually excluding them from school. He told me because we can’t legally do that (I’m in CPS by the way). Hmmm… We can’t exclude kids based on MMR status, or even immigration status for that matter. But, I’m sure the Branch Covidians will forget that inconvenient truth in… Read more »
Vaccine mandate for something that doesn’t work? Let the parents decide what is best for their child and have the teachers teach Math, Science and English. These students are NOT your children. You have NO say in their future. Do your job and step aside to let parents do their job. We are NOT allowing you to tell us what to do to our children. Where is debate on school choice? Let the parents speak with their tax dollars and Board members and Superintendents will realize they work for us, the taxpayers/parents, not the other way.