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.
She should have directed her nonsense against her fellow Democrats. They are pushing an unpopular impeachment to please their crazy far left base while angering everyone else. They’re setting records running away from their impeachment train wreck
Presented without comment because Mendoza is a complete hack. First of all, Blago was under multiple Federal indictments at the time while Trump has been cleared over and over again of any wrongdoing. Secondly, Blago was not very popular with anyone at the time, including Democrats while Trump has a 90%+ approval rating among Republicans. We literally love the man! It is not ‘courage’ for a GOP Rep to vote in favor of impeachment – it is political suicide. These Democrats live in their own little world where they don’t really know any GOP voters, they don’t socialize with them,… Read more »
Not surprised, considering she’s the same state comptroller who tweeted that the state was better off without the taxpayers who have been fleeing. Math is for Republicans, after all…
We left the burning dumpster of illinois,over a year a go.We love are new southern state.You can live your life without being stress out.Even my truck insurance went down when we moved.Life in great out side of the concentration camp called illinois.What i save from being gone,pays for 3 months out in the camper in the summer.We have money for fun instead of the illinois dems.