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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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The total collapse of the Chicago Public Schools, from the teachers not willing to work to the students unwilling to attend, offers a tremendous opportunity to abandon the current reality and re- imagine the entire enterprise. Pensions, unions, buildings, parental involvement, everything should be re-done. Money could be saved, useless futures could be recovered. Begin by insisting teachers be able to pass a high school entrance exam.
In-person in the exempt instances means the teacher is remote, and the student is in the classroom, in which case the student is still learning via Zoom.
A temp is hired to monitor the students in the classroom, hiking instructional costs.
Trusting the government to educate your child has become stupid.
At the very least supplement the government education.