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| 2015-09-10 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna ...The fallout from the budget crisis is far-reaching in the state with the latest example being Chicago's public school system (the third-largest in the country), which opened this week with a budget shortfall of nearly a half billion dollars. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 Fire the head of every department that is over budget; should save some money.... Better yet take out the top five layers of management. (and you just know they have more than 5 layers....) |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-09-10 22:26 |
| #7 I'd forgotten that little tidbit, Dr. Steve. Kind of got mixed into the yearly cr*p that comes out of the folks at Madison & Dearborn. My brother-in-law used to work down there. He said that most of the accounting department directors couldn't even add small sums in their heads and didn't have a clue about money management. It finally got so crazy that he retired early just to save his sanity (nice pension, though). |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2015-09-10 21:44 |
| #6 Fire the head of every department that is over budget; should save some money.... |
| Posted by: Vortigern Chinens3659 2015-09-10 15:21 |
| #5 The CPS has a deficit every year. Every single year we go through this dance, and every year they paper it over somehow. Good story to illustrate: some years back the then superintendent, Manfred Byrd, a life-long hack and apparatchik, was dealing with a multi-hundred million dollar deficit. A reporter noted that in the midst of the deficit that the central school board (meaning Manfred) was hiring 3,000 new employees. The reporter actually confronted him and asked, "why are you hiring all these people with such a shortfall?" Manfred smiled gently and replied, "someone has to help me manage the shortfall." That's the kind of people who run CPS. Of course they have a deficit. Every year. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2015-09-10 12:07 |
| #4 Years of corruption and left-wing mis-management. See Detroit for a similar model. The mother of all fiscal mismanagement is Washington, D.C. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-09-10 10:26 |
| #3 Where'd all that cash go? Ask the Teachers Union. They've been about as concerned about the bottom line as the UAW has been about Detroit's Big |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-09-10 08:49 |
| #2 Stop asking such questions, Bobby. This is Chicago. CPS overspends like crazy. The District is so used to getting bailed out that they don't remember what a 'Budget' really is. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2015-09-10 08:15 |
| #1 I beg your pardon? Years ago, the politicians told the folks the lottery would keep the schools in fat city. Where'd all that cash go? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-09-10 07:41 |