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.
My ideas I gave to my local rep were not ignored but were not allowed to be presented in committee. Those states where property tax’s are lower they implemented either a local county income tax or personal property tax or various other tax’s or any combination of the previous. In Indiana for example a number of years ago assessors starting using the insurance replacement value as a basis for value minus depreciation. Tax’s skyrocketed and people said enough voted many out and new laws were put in place and now they have a 1% cap on residential and 2% on… Read more »
Of course property tax cut ideas were ignored, because implementing them would’ve meant hammering the taxpayer elsewhere to recoup the lost revenue. Therefore, the task force served no productive, meaningful purpose, which equates to abuse of taxpayer revenue.