Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Several northern Illinois schools are cutting staff and reckoning with multi-million-dollar budget deficits – WNIU (DeKalb)
Take Rockford Public Schools for example. In 2022, the state reimbursed pretty much all of their special education transportation costs. A lot of their regular transportation was reimbursed too, and the local district was left to foot the bill for the remaining $800,000. Fast forward to 2026, costs have gone up and reimbursements have stayed the same. So, now the bill is up to $7.5 million.
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
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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
April 3, 2026
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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.
“Special Education” is a problem, not possible to provide education for SE kids. Sad but true as to many $$ are spent on SE kids at the expense of others. At some point SE kids need their families to pay more for their kids needs in SE staff. We need to get back to families paying for their kids education, not their neighbors kids! Linda sounds like private school at the simple way to do education: No kids = no education $$ paid! Got 5 kids, you need to pay for them, got only 1, you only pay for 1!… Read more »
It’s time for school districts to become accountable and trim the fat and teach the kids. Right now all they teach kids is how to pass tests.
unsurprising since many school districts pay PE, home ec & DE teachers with MA’s $100k+ per year