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.
As Wirepoints commented a number of months back, Illinois would lose the Darwin award if Mendoza were elected. Well we lost. Amazing how people vote for economic and housing market decline. Saw that the property taxes on Roberto Garza’s house when he sold it were $31k. No wonder he lost $400k on that house – sold for $470k. (subject of recent article in the Tribune). I know guys with houses in Lakeview that are worth 4X that amount that pay $15k in property taxes. It amazes me that anyone in the burbs would fill in a D circle on the… Read more »