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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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Teachers see themselves as Heros of the Pandemic!
Great Job, Principal Moss! You are making a difference in young lives. The sad thing is there are 22,000 teachers in the CTU who won’t do the good work that Principal Moss is doing and that is disgusting.
Meanwhile, the majority white/ upperincome/ highest paid big city teachers in nation–CTU, who fought to keep schools close (or are fighting for who knows what future goodies) want paid gigs to do ‘community outreach ‘ ( presumably with fed Biden $buck$) to find out where all the systemically disadvantaged black & brown kiddies have gone. Or maybe ctu wants these outreach gigs for thier black & brown –United Working Families underlings while ctu members are vacationing on a beach in Venezuelan on the taxpayers dime?…the clown show never ends
This is sad, when the only people who care for education in the community are the principal and two social workers. They are heroes. They have a tough job teaching when no one else seems to care. The parents, families, aunts and uncles and grandmas, none of them care if the youth goes to school. Not even the students themselves. How do you fix a problem like this, when 1/3rd of your student disappear, and 85% of the 2/3rds remaining don’t even want to show up for in-person learning? And they wonder why the community has problems? When the community… Read more »
In your other writings you’ve bashed teachers and complained along with others here that teachers have an incredibly easy job. This is the first time I’ve gotten the impression that maybe you do “have a clue” after all as to the truly uphill fight many teachers have day to day and even over an entire career in some cases to do their jobs and feel good about being so faithful in doggedly trying to promote an unpopular cause in many communities. Those communities tend to think of schooling much more as a free child care agency allowing the adults more… Read more »
James, teachers unions themselves have encouraged this situation by funding and promoting the progressive ideas that produce it. They have been doing it for decades. Ideas have consequences.
Teachers are like the child who killed his parents, then asked for mercy on the grounds that he is an orphan.
I can understand your point of view, but there’s another way to look at it, too. Teachers see kids and parents from literally all walks of life and see the disparities that occur when minorities are pitted against the more entrenched values of a particular local long-entranched culture, usually tending to want to preserve their ways and attitudes to the exclusion of contrarian points of view held by those same minorities. Probably like you I come from a longstanding set of ancestors who have been in this country for eons, literally dating back to roughly 1850 even in my most… Read more »
All should be welcome, as long as they are willing to live according to the values of American culture. We are seeing the result of pretending that any values are OK and anything goes in the name of diversity. Unfortunately, the education establishment spouts this nonsense, while the teachers are in the direct line of fire for the consequences.
To a degree most not engaged in teaching wouldn’t appreciate its “ulcersville” for the designate leaders of the pack, the teachers. Yeah, teachers have it SO easy!
“Still, I have reverence for the long-valued concept that America in general ought to be a welcoming society where we all strive for mutual betterment rather than lesser versions of it for late comers.” Blacks have a longer history in America than you do because the importation of new slaves into America was banned in 1818. Blacks are more American than most native born today because their families have been here for over two centuries. But there are great disparities between some sets of newcomers and others. Many newcomers from China, greater Asia or Eastern Europe, and Nigeria, tend to… Read more »
I agree.