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.
That’s a good article, and of particular interest is how the percentage of stops of a particular ethnic group correspond to the incidents of crime for that group. It shows how flawed the ACLU assertion that stops are racial profiling. The 3 types of crimes listed average 80% happening to blacks, so the fact only 72% of the investigatory stops suggests there is no bias at all. Unless you have white or brown on black crime, it sounds like some other group is getting profiled since the percentages don’t match up.