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.
“Toddler escrow” is an euphemism for Cook County’s familial hiring practices.
But they Democrats think it’s OK for 15 year olds to have abortions without their parents’ consent. Insane, these people are INSANE.
From the promotion of vice (drug & alcohol use/abuse, gambling/lottery) to celebration of the death-cult of abortion (a woman’s “choice” not to be inconvenienced by the consequences of having sex), our society is not only OFF Sanity Island, we’re way out in Insanity Sea. No society in history avoided massive consequences for adopting such popular fads and fashions. We metaphorically live in Pompeii, and the longer the mountain smokes and the ground trembles, the more complacent are people. Are you complacent? Do you think the future is an endless series of nifty new iPhone revisions? Is Francis Fukayama correct, and… Read more »