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.
When people talk about campaign finance reform, this the exact reason it is needed. I guess they only speak up when it is the Koch Brothers who are funding an initiative.
Essentially he is buying the state of Illinois and this is somehow legal? This is when the fed needs to step in and take control!
I assume one way or another jb is drawing the $51.5 mill from Pritzker family’s tax free/tax sheltered offshore trusts?
Probably not his money.
He just claims it is.
Disgusting that he can politically donate a tiny fraction of his billions so that we can all pay higher taxes. He is a fat, disgusting, evil man.