Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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A statement from the teachers who did not report to work Friday reads, in part, " The current system is ineffective in meeting the social and emotional needs of our students. The top priority of our school board should be to provide a safe environment for every student to learn and teachers to educate. Therefore, we are coming together to ask for mental health crisis support and more restorative behavioral measures for students."
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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
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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.
Teach ‘em to read, write and reason and let the parents provide mental and emotional support.
Stay in your lane, teachers. The children belong to their parents, not the state.
Did they get their paycheck??
The two people’s comments before mine are completely ridiculous and they dont have kids in a school. Funny they would come over here to talk a hit about a school and teachers theybdont know. And yeah, smart guy they did get paid because personal days are theirs to use as they see fit. Shit heads, both of you.
Adam,
That’s pretty on brand for many commenters on this site. These people don’t have any students in the school nor do they have any experience teaching but trust them, they know what’s best.
If a school doesn’t have the general ACTIVE support of the vast majority of the parents it serves it’s likely the students won’t be choosing to be willing and full participants in what its teachers are doing. Teachers individually and even collectively generally can’t succeed when they have indifferent or belligerent parents because the students will have similar attitudes and treat the school as their jail. The whole aura of schooling requires a set of home and community values that support what’s required to succeed there. Even having quiet indifference tips the scale against successful outcomes. If you want your… Read more »