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.
A question about school choice. If a community has 4 schools, and parents have a choice, what happens if everybody chooses the same school ?Who decides who gets in and what do they use as a factor in deciding?
and the main stream press–trib, st, wttw, junk tv news reports on non of it.
Illinois has been on a course of self destruction for more than 50 years. I finally escaped in Dec. 2016 and thank God I will NEVER live in Illinois again. The state of Illinois is bankrupt and on its death bed. I advise all who can to get out as quickly as you can. As the annual exodus increases, the value of your homes will drop and you won’t have the money to leave.
Yes, Illinois is the next Puerto Rico.
An addict (alcoholic, drug addict, gambler, compulsive shopper or spendthrift) will keep going until someone or something intervenes. Death is too often the first and last intervention .Like a rational family member, I have a duty to save myself and others from destruction.