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.
Does anyone listen to JB anymore? What a joke
Thank you JB, Thank you ! YOU are keeping us safe!
I am assuming (hopefully) that you are being sarcastic. Which works for me.
no, I’m not being sarcastic! I trust my life with toilet man, he knows all the science and the data and he keeps us safe!
Yes! JB keeps me safe by reminding me to flee IL every week and go to just about any other state in the Midwest (except my doomed home state of MI)…