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.
Fred writes very well for an art teacher. He claims to be progressive and so long as you limit the definition of the progressive movement to safeguarding union members pensions, he is a progressive. His ilk are the problem. They will hold out to the last man to safeguard their pensions, but how will they be paid? My kids are both smart, likely high earners (one graduates from engineering school this May) and plan on moving elsewhere. We will likely follow them. You pensions are a promise made to you by liars. They need to own that fact and start… Read more »
Not one mention of taxing retirement income?! That doesn’t sounds very progressive at all! He’s just looking at his wallet, I suppose.