tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post4768938393338561824..comments2024-03-25T13:42:25.771-05:00Comments on Advance Indianaâ„¢: Chicago State University Now Preparing For Bankruptcy, May Skip Bond PaymentsGary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-58200222563929761202016-01-22T22:02:26.731-05:002016-01-22T22:02:26.731-05:00Anon 4:31: You describe many public treasury tapp...Anon 4:31: You describe many public treasury tapped, 5013C fronts...Pete Boggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12948800585492289789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-5004525700619885452016-01-22T04:31:29.103-05:002016-01-22T04:31:29.103-05:00If you want to see what a charter school physicall...If you want to see what a charter school physically looks like just drive by an old America's Best motel location or an abandoned Value City furniture store in a strip mall somewhere.<br /><br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1800562001724649952016-01-21T20:33:17.335-05:002016-01-21T20:33:17.335-05:00This is liar, not higher "education."This is liar, not higher "education." Pete Boggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12948800585492289789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-17340272832959181112016-01-21T18:36:46.150-05:002016-01-21T18:36:46.150-05:00That would be "so called" "higher&q...That would be "so called" "higher" education. Would anyone really miss CSU or about half of Indiana schools similar? I think it was Kansas that had the yellow brick road, Dorothy, and some critter awarded a worthless piece of paper....just like Indiana's 15,000 Mike Pence High School Grads who, believing they are college material go on, apply, are accepted, and then informed their education was so deficient that they require "remediation". The Bosma/Long Axis continues this policy of lying to kids about the quality of their education and they seem to pine for the day when they could lower the cut scores on ISTEP to a level of rigor so low that all kids would be above average. There are no failing schools in Indiana...for the NOT LOOKING. Think about, for a change, all those kids in Indiana with a deficient "education", a worthless High School Diploma for College level work (or any work requiring a high school education, for that matter) who DON'T get the word about how they were lied to. The "remediation" doesn't really work well. Those uniformed spend their lives in ignorance and lower standards of living than they could have had IF their schools (all of whom were rated so highly) were held to account.<br /> Think problem. If you wanted to demolish student academic achievement from what was reported last year to what is going to finally be reported this year...what, exactly, would you have done? Do you really think you could affect student academic performance that drastically with whatever you came up with? So, the student academic achievement didn't DROP at all. The reported scores dropped meaning only that they more accurately reflected actual student academic achievement on a particular ISTEP. The difference is not on teachers, schools, parents or kids. But, it is on Mike Pence, Brian Bosma,and David Long as he exemplars of Indiana educational lying....serial lying and for a long time. <br /> As for Chicago, it long ago was worse than Flint or Detroit but for the same reasons among which are Democrat thieves. Charter schools cost the taxpayers a whole lot less, by the way. Best would be to get OUT of government schooling since it is beyond their competence and it allows too much lying....see Indiana. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1157073473759772562016-01-21T17:55:45.028-05:002016-01-21T17:55:45.028-05:00With a Rauner proposed 31% cut in state supported ...With a Rauner proposed 31% cut in state supported higher education, CSU is only one of several Illinois universities who are confronting the prospect of going cold turkey. The Chicago public school system faces bankruptcy and possible state takeover of the system without sufficient state funding. It looks like charter school privatization is the goal of the tea party governor.<br />Rauner's proposed budget also cuts an additional $200 million plus from other public services including burying the homeless, HIV programs, and assisting those with autism. With state corporate revenue at 9%, it would seem that there would be room to maintain services that affect the lives of Chicagoans. If it is the idea of the billionaire governor to intentionally not reach a budget agreement and let institutions wither and die, then Illinois may become another Kansas and Chicago another Flint. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-22245133381393922142016-01-21T15:38:11.984-05:002016-01-21T15:38:11.984-05:00The bond holders who invested in those instruments...The bond holders who invested in those instruments need to take the proffered haircut and pray that Illinois will tell its legislative leaders to change the serial cartoon that is the running pictures of their collective heads. This little problem is designed to pressure Governor Rauner to capitulate and appease those who will not be appeased. We often see group stupidity in action in small minded legislatures. Public sector unions in Illinois have allowed themselves to become public enemies. They have long been recognized as such in Indiana, most pertinently was their recent funding of the flee baggers to Illinois of all places rather than maintain their obligations. Voters punished them. Of course, I'd opine that it was the rural voters of Indiana that did so...the ones most dissed by our stupid Republicans who seem to think that all of a sudden we'd forget how cozy their donors have been with the other party (similar to Illinois where there is a Combine that runs things behind the scenes)...we'd forget our residual distrust of Republicans...the most stupid of whom seem to believe that the people have all of a sudden "Seen the Light" of Republican Virtues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com