Number of half-empty Chicago public schools doubles, yet lawmakers want to extend school closing moratorium – Wirepoints
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.
Tens of billions of new borrowing, at the highest interest rates for any state in the Union.
Today’s politicians obligating tomorrow’s taxpayers to carry an ever-growing burden, an 800 lb gorilla for each TAXPAYER to carry…even as some of those politicians are elected to office by legions of people WHO DON’T PAY TAXES, never have and never will.
It’s a prescription for collapse.