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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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Sad thing is most of the kids live right across the street from the schools.
Why not task the safe passage workers to carry the students to school? Fat kids could ride in wagons.
In first grade my dad took me to school, 2nd and 3rd grade I walked a mile to school with older kids, starting in 4th grade I rode a bike to school, In fact there were usually 50 bikes parked outside every day. I learned how to cross a street with crossing guards, who by the way were the 8th graders trained by the school as crossing guards. St Albert The Great in Burbank. The kids also cleaned the school, the custodian was there just to fix things and run the buffer.
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Here’s the simple, non-PC option: send your kid to local CPS school within walking distance of home. Bus transportation is a huge public school cost line-item, and provides ZERO educational worth. Long past-due to let the student’s parent decide whether their local CPS school is adequate, or if voucher-paid local private grammar school is better option, and stop bus-service altogether. There was a time when CPS attendance didn’t include free bus-service to school of your choice (or child’s successful selective enrollment). CPS “school choice” elementary enrollment options mask fact most CPS schools fail to adequately education 75% of CPS’ students.… Read more »