Number of half-empty Chicago public schools doubles, yet lawmakers want to extend school closing moratorium – Wirepoints
April 19, 2024
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A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
Heck, I could be a federal judge, I said weeks ago the case would be dismissed because black enrollment was down, which means fewer black teachers. It’s pathetic how I read in the news that the CTU said that that CPS didn’t want to settle; and my response was, why should they settle, this case is terrible! And look, they put out that press release about settlement because they too, after 8 years, knew that the case was awful, and they were begging for settlement! I can’t believe this case went on for 8 years. Figure $200 an hour, 20… Read more »