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.
This would only save about 100 million bucks pay and health-care costs………a drop in the bucket compared to the unaffordable and impossible to pay for………PENSION PLAN. So what is the point in laying off 1000 of them. They should have kept them and just underfund the pension by 100M…….it’s already gonna go bankrupt in 10 years.
How many of those laid-off teachers were Tier 2? I’d venture all of them. So even in downsizing CPS manages to get the worst bang-for-the-buck possible.