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.
South siders are only getting this because that I80 bridge is about to collapse, I stopped driving over that thing, the schools have stopped sending school busses over it too. The biggest incompetent blunder was killing the illiana tollway tough. The only growing industry in Illinois is warehousing and shipping due to geography, and that idiot rauner goes and kills the one highway that could have been a boom to Illinois economy. I80 just doesn’t cut it anymore for getting under Lake Michigan going east west.