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.
It’s a sad sight and I’ve watched the real time decline. We also have the you-know-what acronym on a good percentage of the boards. Hint: last word is Marxist, no matter what they actually call it. Who is going to want to go the restaurants, etc., which will not resemble the former experience? Recovery will be difficult, and from now on competing with the socialist structural push which hangs in the air.
“A campaign to welcome everyone back begins this week. The Loop’s 80% dip in traffic is turning a corner.”
Downtown Chicago is a disaster. I’ve been down there a few times since the riots and there’s nothing going on. The boarding up is not the problem, it’s that no one wants to come back to Chicago. I’d be shocked if Chicago ever returns to 80% in my lifetime. I’m moving my small business interests out of Chicago and many others I know are too.