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.
So what will the new State financial guru’s pick to invest in?
Perhaps some “Build Illinois” so called investments with non recourse loans?
Some other fly by night program based things designed to spread the money around as it evaporates making a bad situation even worse?
They probably wont invest in a simple no fee index fund that have provided double digit returns over the past year…and I wonder who’s brother-in-law will get hired to administer the program.
The best day of your life is the day you move out of Illinois.
There is no hope, DOA, a goner.
Let the cops, teachers and firemen pay all the pension taxes.
Do not be the last man to move.
The race is on to get out of this hell hole.
Do not walk but RUN as fast as you can. Do not look back.
HIGH TAXES, LOW SERVICES AND some of the worst weather in the US.
You and your family deserve much better.