CPS has lost 8% of schools’ ‘tech assets’ during COVID, tens of thousands of computers, even air purifiers, defibrillators – Chicago Sun-Times

Computers and other devices that amount to at least 8% of the Chicago Public Schools’ “technology assets” have been listed as “lost” during the coronavirus pandemic. Among the missing items: Tens of thousands of computers, iPads and other high-tech devices. They were lent to students during remote learning but weren’t returned

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Illinois House approves taxpayer-funded monetary boost for needy families – Center Square

Legislation is advancing in Springfield that would increase payments to eligible residents participating in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, welfare program. The Illinois House passed House Bill 4423, brought by state Rep. Marcus Evans, D-Chicago. The measure would increase benefits from 30% of the federal poverty guidelines for each family size to 50%.

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I invite everyone to drive around South Cook to see what high property taxes, collapsed home values and corruption does to communities – Wirepoints joins Chicago’s Morning Answer on AM 560

Ted talked with Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson this week about the coming cost to taxpayers as hundreds of school districts renegotiate contracts with their teachers this year, the overwhelming power those unions have, and how Chicago’s South Cook communities have been destroyed.

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