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.
Three comments: 1) Why is a White Supremacists sketch making the OK sign with three fingers for the “tree” (three)? Someone needs to tweet the staff of the Sun Times that this has the appearance of racism…and then fire the person responsible for this. Cancel culture goes both ways… 2) What about the ignorant Chicago speak, It’s Jewels, not ‘Jewel-Osco’. They always add the ‘s’. 3) Or like the people who’ve lived here their entire lives but pronounce Illinois with the ‘s’ on the end? That makes me angry, they’ve lived here their entire life, and never bother to learn… Read more »
Sammich. And if you are hungry you want a cuppa two, tree.