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.
Who cares about journalists. They can go back to dog grooming for all I care.
Regurgitating press releases without even checking the facts in them does not make you a journalist. Mark and Ted are both journalists, they look at things like the numbers behind IL’s “balanced budget” and prove it’s not, whereas the people at the Tribune repeat the talking point from JB that “we have a balanced budget.”
Thanks, I guess, though I’m not sure we can be categorized as journalists. Don’t know exactly what the.hell we are. Wall Street Journal handled that by calling us a “policy outfit,” which seems as good as anything.
I like naysayers and haters, which is what jabba would call you.
“Fringe and apocalyptic” was good, too, which is what Mendoza said about us.