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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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“Historically, whiteness has been the ideal and the standard against which all public school students’ behavior and academic performance have been judged.” Think about how F’ing racist this is. Striving for excellence is ‘whiteness’. Is striving for sub-par mediocrity ‘Blackness’? This is a legitimate question, not racist. “Tanner said whiteness also manifests in standardized tests that reinforce certain belief systems or ways of knowing that do not reflect minority students’ true knowledge or capabilities,” Translation: BIPOC can’t compete at white people’s standards, because why? Because their ‘true knowledge’ is different? Because of the color of their skin? This article should… Read more »
Lol. Illinois is a JOKE.
It is apparent that these people do not understand the meaning of the word “racism”.
https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1472047155
Oh really.
ISBE announced Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading standards only applied to colleges and universities.
Did ISBE not tell citizens and taxpayers the full story?
Shocked not.