The Most Financially Irresponsible School District in the Nation

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Strike Looming, Chicago Can't Afford to Dance to All That Lefty Teacher Union Jazz

By Vince Bielski, RealClearInvestigationsFebruary 5, 2025 After nasty clashes involving character assassinations and a mass resignation, a showdown is drawing closer in Chicago between the most powerf

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Checking around this forum, you will find a few distressing threads about how awful educational "outcomes" are in the Chicago school district. The linked article - quite long, I apologize - outlines the fiscal and political outrages that have prevailed and continue to prevail in that institution. It is as though the most expensive car brand in the U.S. also produced the worst cars (no sarcastic comments needed).*

But here is my question: How are they able to get away with it? The state constitution demands that it not run a deficit, and yet they have for decades borrowed money to meet operating expenses, and no one has called them out on it in an effective way. Surely, this is illegal enough for a group of taxpayers (Chicago property owners) to sue and demand that the District run within its means. Are they afraid that their property taxes would double? If not property owners, what about the State Attorney General? This blatant lawlessness and irresponsibility must have a remedy under law. Why doesn't anyone do something?

There is no other tenable answer aside from fear of the teachers' union. Democrats. They deserve what they get. No more Federal bailouts - at least in the next four years.

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* Ironically, I have relatives who live in the City of Chicago and LOVE their schools.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Strike Looming, Chicago Can't Afford to Dance to All That Lefty Teacher Union Jazz

By Vince Bielski, RealClearInvestigationsFebruary 5, 2025 After nasty clashes involving character assassinations and a mass resignation, a showdown is drawing closer in Chicago between the most powerf

www.realclearinvestigations.com

Checking around this forum, you will find a few distressing threads about how awful educational "outcomes" are in the Chicago school district. The linked article - quite long, I apologize - outlines the fiscal and political outrages that have prevailed and continue to prevail in that institution. It is as though the most expensive car brand in the U.S. also produced the worst cars (no sarcastic comments needed).*

But here is my question: How are they able to get away with it? The state constitution demands that it not run a deficit, and yet they have for decades borrowed money to meet operating expenses, and no one has called them out on it in an effective way. Surely, this is illegal enough for a group of taxpayers (Chicago property owners) to sue and demand that the District run within its means. Are they afraid that their property taxes would double? If not property owners, what about the State Attorney General? This blatant lawlessness and irresponsibility must have a remedy under law. Why doesn't anyone do something?

There is no other tenable answer aside from fear of the teachers' union. Democrats. They deserve what they get. No more Federal bailouts - at least in the next four years.

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* Ironically, I have relatives who live in the City of Chicago and LOVE their schools.

One word - Democrats.

 

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Almost 100 years of Democratic party leadership.