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.
if TRUMP committed a misdeed, then what do you call your toilet fraud? and where is the repayment and prison for you by the by?????
““I’m working towards selecting the Democrat. We are going to defeat Donald Trump,” Pritzker said. “I’m in favor of whoever wins on the Democratic side. That’s who I’m going to be voting for.” Pritzker has also been a consistent critic of President Donald Trump, having called on the president to be impeached two years ago. The governor said he’s been keeping track of the impeachment hearings and believes Trump has committed “misdeeds.” “It is clear to me that significant evidence has been put forward that shows that President Trump has committed misdeeds, that he has committed wrongdoing, that impeachment is… Read more »
as people continue to escape the yoke of Illinois, land of leavin’
Jelly Belly should recognize corruption. He lives in Illinois. We exported the cancer called Obama to D.C. and look what that did to the FBI and Justice Dept between 2008 and 2016.
Democrat heads will roll in the months leading up to the election.