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Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about Illinois State Rep. Kam Buckner’s dismissal of the dismal educational outcomes in Chicago, the fact that the Chicago Teachers Union is pulling children out of class to have them vote, some of the damaging bills coming out of the General Assembly, and more.
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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
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.
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Come on Illinois, just close it. Close CPS and start over, restructure the 852 School Districts into hundreds of fewer districts – Like 20 or so. Consolidate the management of these districts. Cut the superintendents, principals and vice principals and business managers of districts where their positions are duplicated over and over again throughout the state. State government, change the way Education is funded to remove it from property taxes. School Districts are the single greatest Cost item on property taxes and it makes no sense. Other states fund schools differently without tying them to property taxes. Tennessee has low… Read more »
Here’s some info from teachers in this link.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/former-teachers-recalling-final-straw-221603335.html
People that are well paid and protected while they fail miserably at their jobs are under no obligation to do otherwise.
Yes Dave it is absolutely hopeless.
The reason nothing changes is because you all keep telling people it’s hopeless.
Why do you equate identifying and giving information about a problem with telling people it’s hopeless?
It’s the educators telling us every day that they can’t possibly do the job until they get new parents and a new society. They are the ones spreading the message of hopeless, but keep giving them more money.
it would be hopeless if we all just pretended there is no problem with our education system.
Illinois has been off the rails for decades,
The schools have been bad since the early
60’s. All these years nothing has changed.
Why do you think telling people all is well
Will change anything.
The saying, “ The truth will set you free “
Applies here.
Wyatt, things got better here in the 90′ through the 2010’s. Chicago is literally getting destroyed by poor management. This time is different. Quit making things worse and supporting people that are playing both sides.
“Chicago is literally getting destroyed by poor management,” you say. True, but that’s exactly the kind of comment you always criticize here.
No, I’m sick of the relentless “things never change,” “we’ll never win,” and “your kid won’t get in.” You all want kids to look within themselves for motivation, but when it comes to Wirepoints readers taking back the state it’s hopeless. If The Democrats polled at 1%, Proft would still play the same tune. LOL
Davey boy. You are hopeless.