Number of half-empty Chicago public schools doubles, yet lawmakers want to extend school closing moratorium – Wirepoints
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.
This is a good article, but it has one fatal flaw: It assumes that Illinois politicians understand that tax rates affect behavior. Most democrats have a policy platform that refuses to acknowledge this simple psychological phenomenon, because if they did they would have to acknowledge that things like progressive taxation (and regressive, for that matter) can backfire. That’s not in their playbook.