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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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“Over 50% of participants indicated they need training in trauma-informed practices, de-escalation strategies, restorative justice practices, socioemotional learning approaches, working with diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural groups, behavioral management, threat assessment, and staff team building.” LOL, they are committed ideologues. They are doubling down on the same nonsense that got them here in the first place. More SEL and so-called restorative justice is going to make me despise you even more, you pronoun transflag hanging freaks. This is why we don’t like you. Just be normal, and the people will be normal too. Otherwise, we will keep at you until… Read more »
This shows the problems with these people. They claim the fancy title of “educators,” yet they fail as teachers and seem to do more harm than good!
Maybe if educators, you know, taught the 3R’s, instead of, at worst, transing the children, or at best, turning them into lifelong loyal Democrats, maybe the aggression and anger towards ‘teachers’ would dissipate. But no, they are committed ideologues, and the only way to make them stop is to drive them out of teaching altogether. I called out one of my son’s teacher several weeks ago for some LBGTQ nonsense ‘they’ (as in a pr0noun freak) was pushing in my local school. The superintendent contacted me and said I was ‘being mean’ and not inclusive. I told him that there… Read more »