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.
What percentage of SNAP beneficiaries are obese.
Only in America can you be behind someone at Aldi paying with a SNAP card… And all their kids have iPhones, Nike shoes and designer jeans, then in the parking lot you see them loading up a late model Cadillac SUV. I kid you not I see this all the time.
Food stamp abuse is just part of the larger welfare abuse going on in Illinois. It’s only been in the last few years that the state has made any effort to crack down on abuse at all. During the great recession through about halfway through Rauner’s term, all someone had to do was show up to the public aid office and they were approved. The need for documentation was often glossed over, at least from what I’ve been told. Only in the last few years has public aid assistance required a paycheck and taxes to prove income if you were… Read more »
social security disability is the massive fraud that nobody wants to talk about now