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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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Those honors-level classes, and that tracking program, is what kept Oak Park and River Forest wealthier household kids enrolled at OPRF. Take away the program, and watch enrollment dip dramatically for its first year of implementation. Most parents ultimately opt for what’s best for their kids’ education, to what they can afford to pay, regardless of their liberal leanings. OPRF has an existing significant student-discipline problem concerning its gangbanger wanna-be student-sector. For a prospective parent touring school during school, it can be alarming, regardless whether you’re otherwise a staunch BLM supporter. I’ve been there myself. Classroom disruptions, hallway spats, disrespectful… Read more »
FTR, they are offering an honors curriculum to all students, not removing honors content. That said, it will be interesting to see if regular kids will be able to keep up without distracting the honors kids.
Oak Park with a slimy liberal town!!!
Too few black students in honors classes, so no more honors track? That’s as dumb as eliminating the varsity basketball team because there are too many tall people and making all players compete in JV instead, just to give the short dudes a chance. Their retarded logic is only selectively applied and it results in ridiculous outcomes.
Oak Park is 18% black so if 7% of students in honors English classes are black that doesn’t seem to be a big discrepancy. In a class of 28 that means 2 (7%) black students instead of 5 (18%). I guess if I had grown up in Oak Park instead of Elmwood Park I would understand why this is a big issue.
Excellent point. We are talking maybe a 2-3 student difference here. If that class of 28 students was representative of the entire OPRF student body, it would be 16 White, 5 Black, 4 Hispanic, 2 Bi-Racial, and 1 Asian. Going out on a limb here and guessing honors classes have more than one Asian student. So are they over-represented?
One thing missing from this article is the 3rd largest population at OPRF: Hispanic. How many Hispanic kids are in those same honors classes? Are they under-represented as well?
Fixed the headline for you:
“Oak Park Schools Trash Honors Classes — As Racist White Supremacy”
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Busy work….moving blocks around on the floor like infants with some woke flimflam.