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.
All the recent quiet crafting of laws specifically designed to determine who gets what and when in bankruptcy is the best evidence. Evidence that we have been brought past the point of no return fiscally by these schmucks. And they know it. Why these laws all the sudden for banks, bond holders, etc.? It’s because they have to “lawyer up” Knowing it’s all now a Ponzi scheme. Not to stay out of jail, but to “get what’s mine” ahead of you.
Could Chicago voters through referendum force appointment of a receiver under the Financially Distressed Cities Act?
Dunno. I, for one, wouldn’t bother to research that because Chicago voters don’t have the slightest idea how bad it is, thank to our incompetent media.
Incompetent media? Biased media? Or don’t want to upset the apple cart?
Multiple factors in my opinion. Print media is under financial stress and reporters’ jobs are in jeopardy, so they write about what will stimulate a dwindling supply of readers while seeking to avoid offending politicians and union leaders who could make waves with publishers and advertisers. TV and radio media are playing to whatever audience will listen to them (Fox vs CNN) so there is a bias about what will be covered and how it will be covered. There is a basic lack of understanding of complicated issues with the result that reporters develop “sources” who have a point of… Read more »