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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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Superintendents and school boards had two years to come up with a mitigation plan for when mandates were lifted. Any district that doesn’t have such a plan hasn’t been doing their jobs.
They never planned for mitigation plan because they never thought this day would come. They pretty much assumed students would be in masks indefinitely.
The progressives elected these last two recent elections see school boards as a platform to spew ideological poison. They don’t see themselves as representing the members of the community, they see themselves as reformers who are taking control away from the local rubes, plebs and unwashed racist masses. That’s why hundreds of people can scream at, threaten, sue, harass, intimidate and show up for every meeting, but the progressive board members only become more defiant and double down on their ideology. A few years back, after Obama’s toxicity lost over the Democrats over 1,000 seats in federal and state elections,… Read more »
School administrators in districts who force masking in spite of the court injunction should be held in contempt, taken into custody and held accountable. Monetary fines paid by the individual administrators, not taxpayers, should be extremely punitive.
Fire them and board members vote in next school election
Good Job Parents and Taxpayers! Keep your momentum going!
Masks Off, Communist Teachers and Boards Out!