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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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Best thing CTU teachers could actual focus upon, for greatest beneficial outcome of their low-income students, would be to ENSURE that their students read at grade-level, perform mathematics at grade-level, and have sufficient comportment and decorum to maintain employment. Original educational mission was creation of educated blue-collar and service-industry worker population. That goal served dual purpose. best outcome for low-income children’s individual greatest personal outcomes, and for society-at-large. Current CTU politics push for student advocacy, and fails to address long-term needs of CPS students. It ultimately reinforces many CPS students’ future marginal employment prospects, and likely underemployment. Low-income CPS students,… Read more »
Dumbing down kids and using them as useful idiots complements the multifaceted strategy to destroy this republic.
If you like your children being employed as tools of the revolution, you’ve come to the right town.
This revolution is being televised.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw
SO GLAD I DON’T HAVE KIDS IN THIS MESSED UP SYSTEM!!!!!!!