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.
I am terrified for the future of this state because there is no good candidate for governor. Rauner does nothing and Pritzger will destroy this state. Time to get out.
I have been trying to expose Glenn Singleton and his Pacific Education Group, SEED, and Peggy McIntosh’s “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” for over a decade. When I worked full-time in the writing center at Deerfield High School, I criticized the feckless, racist efforts and expense of Singleton to the administration and school board. Singleton found out and in a meeting with all department chairs, he called for me to be fired (a department chair told me the next day, and two others confirmed it), boasting that he had gotten people fired in other districts. Two weeks later, I was removed… Read more »
Your experience is horrible but not surprising. We hear lots off the record from teachers who don’t like they but are afraid to talk publicly. I understand that for younger teachers who face retribution. For older teachers who are tenured or retired, however, I have little respect for those who aren’t speaking up.
Wow Mark, great article/analysis ! I looked at the SEED “project” website — IT’S FRIGHTENING ! And the founder Peggy McIntosh wrote the “seminal” paper in 1988 on White Privilege & Male Privilege. She even earned a PhD in the subject, from Harvard. Here’s her classic paper, from which derived SO much attention in academia and spawned a plethora of racist/sexist/hate-filled majors in universities: —— https://nationalseedproject.org/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack ———- Notice she demands all Whites and esp all White Males, learn, understand and acknowledge how privileged they are, and do ALL THEY CAN TO END IT (whatever that means). How about this common-sense… Read more »
It seems as important as breathing to virtue-signal.
Pandering to supposed victim-hood is, in itself, victimization.
Segregation is alive and well in the democrat party.