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"An analysis of 2021 U.S. census data by Wirepoints shows that Illinois spends 20% to 60% more per pupil than its neighbors and other Midwestern states...One would think that the well-documented strong performance of parochial and other private schools would compel the legislature to not only extend the successful Invest in Kids scholarship program but also make it permanent and even expand it. Not in Illinois."
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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A number of decades ago, an urban school in arizona with mostly hispanic students had problems reading. A teacher asked if she could try a phonics based reading program. The school gave her a year. Her students, later, actually participated in a reading contest against a school in a well-off area and won! In fact the losing school accused the urban school of cheating! At the end of the trial year the urban school did not renew the reading program.
The money is not spent on education, it is spent on benefits for teachers, todays and yesterdays. Pension money eats up a lot of the money. Highest prices for the poorest education, sounds like the taxpayer is getting screwed on this one.
Who would of thought that a meager tax credit for private donations to private schools would ruffle the feathers of the union hacks in IL.
The headline is misleading. Parents have not lost any school choice. They can still send their kids to private schools or home school or even hire private tutors. The problem is they have to pay for it and they still have to pay for public schools even if they don’t use it.
Everyone pays for public schools (or any thing else public) even if they don’t use it. I agree with you though that they didn’t take away school choice. This argument reminds of the left’s argument that companies that object to providing birth control through their insurance are taking way a woman’s right to birth control. No, just took away the right of an employee to force their employer to pay for it.
Good analogy.