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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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No, no, no. It’s not “grade inflation”. It’s called “grading for equity”. Literally. Coming to a public school near you, if not there already.
College admissions departments must be pulling their hair out about now. They get rid of standardized testing because BIPOC score too low, they get rid of honors classes because its unfair, they inflate grades for below average to average students…now they’re supposedly using ‘academic rigor’ to determine if you’re qualified to attend a certain school or not, meaning how many AP classes did you take…which is why Evanston had a segregated AP calculus class, so they would know to give A’s to BIPOC students for ‘rigor’. But let’s take this to it’s logical conclusion: why even have merit at all?… Read more »
I wonder how the Ivy League schools plan to keep up their mystique of being the best, once they achieve the goal of total equity? Without the concept of merit, what makes the Ivy League special? I’m sure they have a plan for that problem…
I’ve heard anecdotally they are starting to lose some of that mystique, as some more serious employers are quieting rejecting Ivy League and other highly selective candidates for state school graduates. Along these same lines, I was at a neighborhood party a few months back, and a new parent in town said she was shocked at how few high schoolers in my academically high achieving town (average SAT scores is in the 81-86%, which is ridiculously high) go to highly selective colleges. She was concerned too many were going to U of I and other state schools out of state,… Read more »
U of I is no where near what it use to be. DIE has really watered down the student population. Back in the old days, five tears ago when ACTs were still required and my daughter was applying, I was shocked at some low ACT student she knew that were accepted. I am sure much worse even though only five years later.
25% of the school has less than a 1330 and 25% scored more than a 1510. That’s the middle 50% 1330-1510. 1330 is a 90th % score, so that’s pretty good. The DIE admitted are those below 1330. A cisgendered straight white male from Northbrook or Glen Ellyn isn’t getting into U of I with a 1,350 SAT score but the LGBTQIAP+ (P stands for pederast) or BIPOC excl. asian decent student will be accepted with a 1,280 95 times out of 100.
https://www.admissions.illinois.edu/apply/freshman/profile
My co-workers kid with a 36 ACT score was rejected by Northwestern. He’s a male cisgender upper middle class white kid. Your assessment is spot on.
If I had to guess, the average ACT score of the NW newspaper editorial board is probably in the mid-20’s, all of whom were accepted because they pushed their identity rather than their test scores.