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.
So, Pritzker’s solution is to raise taxes and user fees, and to create new taxes and user fees. Whatever you do, don’t reduce the massive pensions and free health care, because, you know, that’s a promise. Besides City of Chicago and State of IL workers and retirees, who would want to live in IL anymore? As I said previously, what’ll likely happen is that the IL pols will eventually amend the state constitution to put a band-aid on the problem; e.g., replace the automatic three percent pension raises with some cost-of-living index, then declare victory. No one should be misled… Read more »
97 out of 115 state reps and 54 out of 56 state senators signed off on last year’s budget. How do they explain their explicit approval of running such a large deficit?
This was predicted. We knew that the first thing they were going to do (other than exacerbating the problem by immediately giving public unions everything they contractually wanted) was blame Rauner. They’ve planned since Rauner first took office to obstruct every reform he had, hold out, and then when he was gone, blame him for problems they created.
Illinois democrats make me sick to my stomach.
The question is, will the people of Illinois buy this hook, line and sinker?
I think you know the answer.
agree 100%, this is a opening salvo to –pay-up time by afsme and the machine, by not only blaming everything on rauner as an absolute FAILURE but more importantly reminding every sheepling/stepin fetchit voting taxpayer that we are FAILURES as well. now watch shoe shine republicans– brady & durkin get in line.
It can get worse…New Jersey looks to be initiating a rain water tax.
New Jersey Rain tax website
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-10/nj-voters-furious-governor-murphy-prepares-sign-rain-tax-law