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.
400-600 people are murdered in Chicago every year. Most of those deaths are around just a few neighborhoods. We have been told by our leaders that it is our responsibility to lock ourselves in our homes in order to save lives from this virus. If that is the guiding principal shouldn’t we lock down the neighborhoods that are responsible for most of these deaths?
This is great evidence that locking up criminals reduces crime. We should be locking up criminals, not releasing them, Kimmy Foxx.
Are our local pols shameless enough to point to this one-off lower crime number in the years ahead to justify their continued terrible policies?
You’d better believe it.