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.
There’s nothing stopping JB from making a check out right now to the State of IL and giving them every last dollar he has in the bank. (Maybe even give them title his second house, although they may not want one that doesn’t have toilets in it.) They’d cash it as soon as it came in the mail, and then what? The state would only be 301 billion in the red instead of 306 billion since he’s worth about 5.
Do you know the total annual income earned by the taxpayers with income over $150,000? The numbers expressed as a percentage of that would be more informative; $453,000 to someone earning $150,000 is different than to someone earning $2 million.
$306,130,652,549. That’s from the most recent data we have FOIAd from dept. of revenue. So, one way to look at it would be that all income for everybody earning over $150k would have to be taken for one year just to get even on pension/healthcare. I haven’t done the division for all the rest.