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.
Joe Ferguson is a man of zero integrity. He refused to follow the facts in the CPD lieutenant scandal because Rahm told him to do so. In return for lying Ferguson received an increase in his budget and a new contract. When his girl Lori won, he was retained because Lori is a Rahm clone who kept him because he’s a loyal gutless dishonest scum who will do what she says. The whole investigation of Eddie is drama and Lori knows it. There will be no report and no findings that will tell the truth. Lori, Rahm and RINO Lausch… Read more »