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.
Yes, this law is great for struggling retail. Expect the retail-apocalypse to affect Chicago and more specifically, Chicago neighborhoods, more acutely. Pretty soon everyone will be forced to buy products from Amazon.
The small retailers that are barely alive dont have enough employees to be effected buy this crazy legislation. Theyre all paying there workers as contract workers anyway ,so are the restaurants.The small retail property owners in the neighborhood’s are also sunk from prop taxes, sales taxes & parking meters, i have neighboors that own commercial property that they havent been able to rent for ages…no pols care
Employeers will just turn everyone into contract workers, which will make it all the more difficult to collect payroll taxes..