Tag Archives: Jack Roeser
Every 12 Years: A Review of the Book ‘Saving K-12’ (Part One)
Every 12 years another set of children progress through America’s government-run school system. Those that graduated this past spring started twelve years before that as first-graders in 2005.
In 2005 I had the honor of serving as the president of the Family Taxpayers Foundation (FTF), a non-profit focusing chiefly on school reform -- both curriculum and finance…a to z, soup to nuts.
Posted in Education
Tagged Bruce Deitrick Price, Common Core, government schools, Jack Roeser, k-12 education
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The Illinois Pension Scam: There is No Excuse for the Failure of Reform
In preparation for the recording of an IFA Spotlight weekly podcast, executive director Dave Smith asked me to do some research about the Illinois government’s employee pension problem. For me, it is not a fun topic to delve into because for a dozen years now I’ve watched elected conservative state legislators completely ignore the seriousness of the legalized theft that has been going on in Illinois for decades as it pertains to pensions.
Yes, legalized theft. How else can you describe someone paying into a fund about $154,000 over the course of their working years and then expect $2,200,000 …
Posted in Illinois Politics
Tagged Bill Zettler, Book: Illinois Pension Scam, Illinois Pension Systems, Illinois Policy Institute, Jack Roeser, Pension Reform
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