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.
Why don’t we lockdown all govt employees. Permanently
Groot and the Dictator are admitting they failed.
Didn’t work the last time, won’t work this time.
It’s a virus……
Lori is again living in her authoritarian world. As layoffs continue the city workers still play.
Maybe some layoffs are in order but union contracts need to be looked at as a whole throughout the entire state. More contributions to medical care, no more freebies bring it in line like the private sector. No more exuberant accumulation of sick and comp days, us them or loose them just like the private sector. Wages and salaries need to come into line also.
The whole thing is BS
To be clear Newsweek “journalists”: Queen Lightfoot has issued an illegal and unenforceable lockdown.