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Illinois government schools lost 0.8% of their enrollment last year compared to 2021. Only Hawaii lost more, shrinking by 1.7%. Illinois’ loss tied with New York and Wisconsin.
That’s according to a new report by The74, an education-focused nonprofit. The full results for every state are below.
-Mark Glennon
Summary and audio linked here.
If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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Truancy officers are a thing of the past. If you don’t want to go to school, you don’t have to. If you don’t want to learn, you don’t have to. If you don’t want to teach, you don’t have to. If you don’t want illegals bunking in your school gym or homeless, drug users living on school grounds, that’s too bad. If you want your child and your tax dollars to go to a more beneficial school for your child, that’s too bad. If you don’t think you should pay real estate taxes to support this sh!t show, that’s too… Read more »
I don’t care if you disagree. You took the easy way out and you won’t use your words to respond. That’s a clear indication you have no words to explain youself. No guts, no glory.
The CPS numbers are “enrollment”. I recall CPS’ “daily absentee” and “chronic truancy” counts are outrageously high, Wirepoints, are you able to retrieve that data?
WP has reported several times on the underutilized school facilities which are still being staffed. Featherbedding by the CTU seems to have no limits.
I hope the unions are happy with their power grab as this is the result. Parents will continue to flee the public schools and the privates will flourish. Good luck teachers’ union member in landing a private school job.
I wonder how much Randi Weingarten’s policies had to do with the declines in enrollment?
-1 is the easy way out, why not share your comment and why you disagree?
I have this image of a teacher’s union person coming here regularly to pound the down vote button on most everything seen.
I’m sure they are on the clock when they do it.
The same occurred to me. What a thought provoking article. The number of down votes should be like applause in your ears !
Always, always remember that it is a teachers union. It exists for the benefit of teachers. Students have nothing to do with it.
After a cursory glance I notice that most of the states that lost enrollment are blue states—some very blue. Might this flight from government schools, particularly in those states, be because during the ‘pandemic’ parents were educated about what was being taught and removed their children from those schools never to return again ? One can hope that is so for the sake of the students.
And the nation!
They’re projecting 2 million less students nationwide by the end of the decade. The days of ever-increasing student enrollment are behind us for awhile. We need to rethink if pumping more money into school is the best way to serve students’ educational needs.
Spot on, in fact we’ll be seeing property tax reductions soon due to declining public school enrollment…….
Oh joy ! Lower property taxes ! And if you believe that, there’s a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you.
Unfortunately they will get whatever what was levied the year before in Ptell counties regardless of enrollment or property values.
-1 must be afraid this will effect his job and income.