Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the 100K-pay club of government workers, the expensive failures of Illinois’ public education system, the nonsense of Illinois lawmakers claiming the state’s budget is balanced, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Senator Tammy Duckworth’s IVF Stunt
- Dolton’s mayor gets all the attention, but what about the failure – and high pay – of Dolton’s school admins?
- States across the country are cutting taxes. Illinois just raised theirs by nearly $1 billion.
- Illinois government’s $100K salary and pension club: 140,000 members and rising
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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.
Public employee unions are bankrupting and ruining Chicago, Illinois, and the USA!
They should all be outlawed!
The US has implemented antitrust laws at state and federal levels designed to protect and promote competition within all sectors of the economy (The Sherman Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, and the Clayton Act are the three pivotal laws in the history of antitrust regulation). The term “trust” in antitrust refers to a group of businesses that collude or monopolize to control in a specific market. So, why does the Chicago Teachers Union have the exclusive authority to educate our children? The glaring disparities in our society often trace back to education. When children lack basic literacy, numeracy, and… Read more »
Both the Government and Union Goons hated this one. Problem is, its true. Unbridled political greed will destroy this state.
Teacher ratings are meaningless, and have been forever. A few reasons why: Every teacher in the building thinks he/she is awesome at teaching. Telling them otherwise would result in the principal getting a visit from a Union rep, to discuss the grievance said teacher is about to file. Something the principal would rather not deal with. Many principals (not all) are either former PE teachers or average former classroom teachers who liked the idea of a six-figure salary and the power trip. They wouldn’t know good pedagogy if it slapped them in the face. Having a pricipal conduct formal observations… Read more »
CPS, “where all the teachers are above average.”
CPS does not know how to do the math for calculating an average.
What is the amount due for OPEB? Last time I checked it was funded at 0%-it was pay as you go.
Great question FJB. Other Post-employment Benefits (OPEB) is a term that characterizes retirement benefits, other than pensions that are offered to employees of state agencies. All I could find was published in 2017 ( I dot think the state wants the public to know) It was it was $64Billion for Illinois.
https://www.nasra.org/files/Topical%20Reports/OPEB/opebs2019.pdf