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.
Now taxpayers need to organize to resist paying ridiculous property tax’s for services not rendered like parents forced into the roll of being teachers/limited police protection for fear of retribution when they make an arrest for anyone of color. If businesses can organize, taxpayers should also band together.
Good idea, but it will be a cold day in hell when anybody gets off there as-es in this state and protest against Springfield and local school districts, for some reason people in this state think there gods. Only reason they won’t speak up FREE STUFF
Just a way that Illinois wants to gather money from their already stretched citizens and business. I do not blame businesses if they leave Illinois. It is not in their interest to remain in this state. What benefits are they getting?
Just speculating, but are some of those businesses paying off the tax collector? As a young lawyer, decades ago, a client asked for help opening an office in Chicago. Several of my older colleagues recommended having the client hire a “Chicago lawyer.” Later the client thanked me because, as he quipped, “in Illinois, it takes a lawyer to bribe an assessor.”
(Since then, “my” law firm has opened a Chicago office and staffed it with long-time Chicago practitioners.)