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"In some cases, the defence of failure is breathtaking. Blue states such as Illinois have worked to all but eliminate charters, even as the Land of Lincoln boasts 53 schools where not one student can do grade-level math and 30 where none can do so in English. These schools are overwhelmingly in Chicago, where a significant increase in spending per student since 2019 seems to have made no impact. Yet Chicago’s failures are wholly representative.
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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Stoned, stupid and compliant makes for an easily governed populace.
Get back to learning the basics, reading and
Simple Math. The student can then at least
Gain some decent employment later.
Then teach some basic history, all history,
Civics.
The current teaching is lacking in many
Ways and unless changes are made these
Kids are in for a world of hurt.
Parents be parents or stop having kids,
Take care and raise them or the prison
System will do it for you.
Teachers don’t teach they indoctrinate. What’s needed is Cameras in every classroom.
The K-12 school choice movement is rapidly growing across the country, and most states are expanding already existing options for students and parents. Illinois is the only state reversing earlier gains. Time will tell, but I predict that Illinois will become less attractive and competitive as a destination for firms and their workers at least in part due to its poor public education. For more information, check out EdChoice’s just-released 2024 edition of “The ABCs of School Choice”, which documents K-12 school choice activities by state.
Americans aren’t becoming more stupid. This is some stupid Zero Hedge doom garbage. There’s plenty of evidence to the contrary. It’s known as the Flynn effect after researcher James Flynn.
I disagree, America HAS become more stupid. We’ve imported hordes of poor uneducated third worlders, and now their kids are half of all children under the age 18, and a majority of students in many districts across the country. So yes, importing a less educated population, that cares little for public education or education at all, is inevitably going to lead to lower test scores. Immigrants of the past built the private relgious schools that educated nearly everyone, before the public schools took over. Now they show up and say “Gimme free breakfast and lunch and a chromebook I can… Read more »
You have not met my in laws. They are more like outlaws and I avoid them like the plague. Not kidding so no lol.
Do you even know what the Flynn effect is? ‘Cause you missed the point completely.
Don’t think people are getting stupider. Well then just check out Ole Dave here. Dumb as a box of rocks .
Maybe it has finally become impossible to hide the depth of the failure of public education and the education establishment. Will we stop listening to the excuses and force out the destructive ideas that have infected schools for decades?
A student needs to be motivated, in my case I went to private schools, and my father said that if I didn’t do well he would send me to the public school. that was motivation
“If you think riding the tiger is rough, watch what happens when you fall off “ as the old adage goes.