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.
The people who attend these venues are all pro blm types. This is still a capitalist country. Let them blame blm and an idiot government in Illinois and Chicago closing down Chicago and Illinois in order to get senile Biden and racist Harris elected. I don’t feel sorry for them at all.
Uh, not quite. Good amount of patrons for Metro, DoubleDoor, Aragon, etc. are Gen X and older and attending shows purely for the talent, 20-30 years before blm was a glimmer in Soros’ evil eye.
Free markets for free men. In capitalism we don’t support a failed business model. Too many waitresses, bartenders, musicians, actors, comedians, artists and community activists and other silly jobs that are not now and were never intended to be full time endeavors or careers. The above need to be in school or trade schools trying to get real jobs. The government can no longer subsidize their childish games and poor choices at the expense of taxpayers.
I love(d) Metro – saw some great talent there going back 20+ years. Also large gatherings of hundreds of people half of whom recognized each other.
Closure of these unique, niche music venues will be a major part of Death of a Great Midwestern Metro-polis.
I wonder who all these independent club owners and their customers voteD for in the last governor’s race? Elections have consequences.
Not one venue was closed by COVID. They were closed by the cruel edicts of a fat, stupid, lazy, slob Dictator
And Demon Mini-Me Leadfoot, aka Groot/Gremlin/Beetlejuice.
Remember who screwed you! The Chi-coms and the Chi-town coms!