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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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That’s ok after the teachers get their second paycheck they will strike and no one will need to get to school.
There will be no school completion this year. Change in normal education, not much.
“I guess the union didn’t consider ‘all the things’ * when students were depending on them to arrange for needed busing on the first day of the school year.
*Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association (NEA), delivered a ‘totally unhinged’ speech, shouting about winning ‘all the things.'”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/57iRApQo5Nc
This should be a video to discourage kids from using drugs and being in front of a microphone.
In church this should be shown as classic demon possession.
That was unexpectedly hilarious, a testament to why CTU & NEA are leading the students by indoctrination at the expense of critical thinking.
more pathetic reporting that doesn’t state what CPS total transportation $budget$ is or how many students are provided transportation services during the year? I believe, CPS transportation budget is approx $150 mil. I’m sure the transportation $cost/per student is in outer-space as is everything at CPS
Have you checked whether the DNC returned the buses. I’ll bet your masters had no shortage of transportation.