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.
“Lightfoot has earned those attacks. In recent months, the mayor has stood down two of 2020’s most intemperate protest movements — right-wing maskless Covidiots and left-wing statue-toppling vigilantes.”
So, the ‘both sides’ argument. Shame on you Chicago Mag, shame on you. 200 people at the Thompson Center on a Tuesday afternoon is not morally equivalent to 20,000 to 100,000 looters burning the city.
To the author Edward McClelland: I stopped reading your sophomoric drivel at this paragraph. You are a fraud. Here’s a grooming brush and a pooper-scooper. Get to work, you degenerate.
She is the idiot
The center never evolved, so how can it hold
What the Whaaaa? Aren’t we talking about a pure Marxist here??!
The revisionist history telling has begun. Ms LL is part of the problem.
Good grief. What a puff piece!