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.
Ironically, gentrification is precisely what makes neighborhoods integrated and diverse. White people moving into minority neighborhoods tends to make the neighborhood diverse and integrated and raises home values for everyone. But this is ‘bad’ integration according to the progressive mindset even though the end result is diverse and integrated neighborhoods. You know, because gentrification is just a white power structure, or something. And even though Chicago is roughly 1/3rd of each major race (white, black, hispanic) never are there discussions of integration of black and Hispanic neighborhoods, which would be crucial component of ‘pure’ integration. And what about Chinatown? Chinatown… Read more »