Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
Chicago schools Utter failure in all aspects!
The decline of Chicago will continue!
Of course they won’t fire them; it’s for the children you know.
Right Absent Without Leave but not fired. they get to be remediated about ten times before firing happens. And amazingly they will be ready to retire with pension after ten remediations. I do not know what Lightfoot fears from this union. They went all out for Preckwinkle she owes them nothing.
Wow, I never thought they would’ve had it in them to fire insubordinate teachers. Or I suppose with the way they laid it out above they would prefer to go the Office Space route with Milton and just stop paying them. Nonetheless it should be as effective. Time to drain the swamp known as CPS.
Don’t get too excited. I don’t think they will actually fire them.
Further, CPS CEO Janice Jackson said staff members who don’t show up — as about half failed to do this week — will be deemed absent without leave “and ineligible for pay going forward.”
Once they stop paying them almost all of them will show.