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.
Headline calrification: They are not ‘undocumented seniors’. They are ‘criminal illegal aliens’. They should be deported.
I wonder if there are billboards in Mexico-Central America-South America saying Come To Illinois FREE Everything!!
JB really is a moron. He will stop at nothing to doom this state. Have another triple bacon cheeseburger big boy.
Why didn’t Pritzker and his uber wealthy Leftist friends on the North Shore pay for this charity care?
JB must be so proud that he beat Cuomo and Newsom to the punch on this. Maybe now he will be the national leader he dreams of being…
What about extending free coverage for U.S citizens over 65 living in Illinois such a racist law.
How about they all return home for free healthcare in their home countries? That’s the better idea