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.
I thought the County provided free health care! Why he is now whining that free health care is too expensive? Yet when some hospitals in the area provide free health care – and lose upwards of $2,000,000 a month, or more, and go bankrupt, the state won’t even let them shut down!
Yes folks, this is the progressive utopia they have been hoping for since 2016.
I see no mention of the impact Chicago’s decision to be a sanctuary city has has on demand for health care. I can’t imagine that illegal immigrants are paying their fair share for their use of the system.
At least the county can receive some reimbursement from citizens who are on medicaid or medicaid expansion. The illegal immigrant gets no medicaid (although their citizen children do) and thus gets no reimbursement.