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.
And the US Supreme Court that handed the 2000 Presidential election to George W. Bush in a 5-4 decision, with all Republicans voting in the majority and all Democrats against, was not a rogue court? Fortunately, conservatives have lost their majority on that court for the forseeable future unless the unthinkable happens in this Presidential election. I don’t see a Scalia-less court overturning the ISC on this ruling. By the way, the Kanerva ruling was a 6-1 ISC decision, with 2 of the 3 Republicans voting with the majority, and the later ruling overturning direct pension diminishment was 7-0. By… Read more »
I, too, see little hope for a US Supreme Court appeal. And I have little respect for the Republicans on the Illinois court. What binds them all is that they and their colleagues are pensioners, and they vote that way, never mentioning once the conflicts of interest that riddle the system.
The best reason to Vote Trump is to have a conservative voice on the Supreme Court to replace conservative Scalia.