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.
COVID-19 is systemic racism. Toni, Lori, Jesse, Dahleen, Laura, Mary and Hermene are right!
Please elaborate with facts
The facts are in their columns and the news.
Then when is the permanent victim class going to start social distancing, stop riding the el north to rob, mug and carjack, have house and hotel parties, congregate on street corners dealing drugs, and smoke and drink in every playground and park on the south and west sides? It’s time for the guard to stop their craziness.
“Some of the hardest-hit communities on the South and West sides have struggled with unemployment and health care access for generations. ” This is a lie. The residents of the neighborhoods struggle with unemployment, not the community of Roseland. My bedroom community has few jobs, are we struggling for work? No! As for healthcare access, Medicaid has been around for my entire life, and it’s been FREE – as in PAY NOTHING! I have family members on medicaid and they pay nothing, and they are the unhealthiest around. It’s not the FREE healthcare that makes them unhealthy, its the lifestyle… Read more »
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It’s impossible for a community to have jobs for all its residents, for many reasons. ?
Health care access could refer to transit access to a hospital or clinic. ?
From what I’m seeing, if you have the virus you are to stay home and isolate yourself. Only those that are so sick and can barely breathe get medical treatment, can go the the hospital and get medication. Please tell me what special access I’m getting that the the black community is not getting. I’m sorry I don’t drink, eat chips and watch TV all day