Ted joined Dan and Amy to discuss the current scramble regarding CPS/Chicago’s $175 million pension payment, the emptying out of Chicago Public Schools, the scandal of the top-paid superintendents in Illinois receiving $300K-plus in salaries despite their failures, why Illinois is full of legalized corruption, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Chicago property taxes rise 3.5 times faster than inflation in last decade
- Chicago Public Schools should reject union demands for 9% yearly raises and implement a salary freeze instead.
- One big reason Chicago Public Schools is facing a billion-dollar deficit
- One of the first targets for an Illinois DOGE? Chicago’s 20 nearly-empty, failing schools. Here’s the 2025 list.
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.
School superintendent is the biggest scam around
Do tell us from all your experience as one who clearly did nothing in the way of a school superintendency judges so harshly about those who do and from the comfort of your easy chair. Inquiring minds want to know how someone who has no such experience can be so profoundly opinionated about it. There likely are/were many people who thought your job was too easy overpaid that even a dolt like you could do it. Perhaps they could, too, and just had jealousy as their motivator for attacking. Not you, of course. Again tell us how your talents were… Read more »
Shut up you blow hard, know it all. I know, you’re the smart guy in the room, just ask you. You’re nothing but a windbag. I bet your dog hates you.
These reports are never ending and getting worse. Not only is the cost of school districts stupid expensive, but the results are awful, in a normal world, the market and industry would adjust, it would have to adjust. Providing an inferior product for ever increasing costs…just is not going to sell very well. But not in Public School Education, nope, we are told “you don’t understand”, “what are your credentials” and “when was the last time you were in a classroom”. The increase in Home schooling and enrollment in private schools indicates people are looking for a better product for… Read more »
If they were paid by results and they will be collecting food stamps.
Scandal is right. Cook County priorities in a nutshell.