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.
Wiait till health care is free and entire towns line up at the hospital demanding their free doctor! This is nothing.
Services that they have a right too? The Declaration of Independence says Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. There is no mention of $25 copays in it.
It’s always the poorest who are the most unhealthy too. We talk about moral hazard but that even the concept is waaaaaaaay over their head; and even worse when they know they can get free, but substandard, gov.care.
Here’s an idea: How about the County stops providing awful substandard care to illegal immigrants, medicaid patients, and moochers? Why is that the county’s job? It’s really expensive, it loses money every year, and it’s paid for primarily by the citizens who don’t even use the system. And those who do use it, use it so much that they drive it into insolvency. Absurdity.