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.
I remember seeing Bob Fioretti in a debate with John Stossel on pensions. Stossel believes in pension reform and Bob Fioretti argued vigorously against pension reform. I wonder what his LLC earns in fees from Harvey, Illinois.
Yup, and it’s going to be funnier when Trump wins and then they have to make some real tough decisions as he and the Senate tell them to pound sand.
I’m not so sure Trump will win or the republicans hold the senate. Each day it looks more likely that the three branches of the government will be colored blue by the time of the presidential inauguration.
I laboratory experiment displaying the future of IL, bondholders and pensioners.
This has been a problem for Harvey bondholders for quite awhile. The state responded by forcing Harvey to pay (withhold state funds) into their pension funds first and let everyone else (bondholders, city employees, etc…) fight over the scraps. The pensioners are fine and continue to receive full payment.
The non-productive are the important people in Government.
The first question a new employee ask is when do I get my huge pension?
An 80 year old pensioner makes more in one year of retirement than he/she made in the first ten years of employment for the state,