Paul Vallas: Will JB Pritzker Look at a Gift Horse in the Mouth? – Chicago Contrarian

"Fears that the (federal scholarship) program could fund schools promoting discriminatory, racist, anti-American, or anti-Semitic views also fall flat. Nothing prevents the state from establishing clear guidelines to guard against such outcomes. As for Pritzker’s skepticism about whether the program fully benefits students — what exactly is complicated about a scholarship that places hundreds of millions of dollars directly into the hands of parents, including those who choose to homeschool?"
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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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