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.
Profit wise these colleges clean up. It costs only a teacher and a classroom to stand up humanities classes. Whereas standing up a class in electronics, medicine, physics, etc. Costs much more in equipment, labs, etc. Most of these cheap classes devolve into echo chambers for snowflakes. Whereas a STEM class is focused on goals and skills and the cost of not wasting the semester on arguments over what bathroom to use.