Scott Walker: Democrats deserve Chicago: Progressive policies have ruined the Windy City – Washington Times

"In Chicago, young people start out at a disadvantage as the government-run schools are a mess. Last year, just 23% of the graduating class of 2022 could read at grade level as juniors, and only 21% were proficient in math. Wirepoints reviewed data from the Illinois Department of Education for 2022. It found that 55 government-run schools in Chicago reported no students who were proficient in math or reading last year. Not one."
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Poor Taxpayer
3 years ago

Ruined? Destroyed is more like. Killed it, beat it to death. Chased all the business out of town, families are fleeing ASAP.

Old Joe
3 years ago

Yep and I hope those Youths have one more riot left in them for the Convention.

Nostradamus
3 years ago

If you send your children to public schools in Chicago , you really do not love your kids.

debtsor
3 years ago

Ruined Chicago? I think he means, made Chicago better! We live in a progressive utopia!

Nostradamus
3 years ago
Reply to  debtsor

Are you snorting unicorn dust?

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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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