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.
Bankruptcy Now!!!! No one with a brain in Illinois should be surprised by this absurd spending spree and irresponsible “budget” (and I count WIrepoints readers and John Kass readers as the dwindling number of Illinoisians with a brain). With Governor Rauner gone, Illinois Democrats have virtually nothing holding them back. Reason, Responsibliity, Financial Competence, Ethics, Shame; Pritzker, Madigan, Quisling Republicans and Illinois Democrats are unfettered by these trappings of sanity. Soon, once Connecticut defaults, the Bond Market will wake up to the looming and very predictable defaults of Deep Blue states and municipalities and bond rates will skyrocket. That will… Read more »
Zorn spends his time calling Republicans ‘liars’ for even suggesting that the graduated income tax might someday affect the middle class.
Today I read that he’s now a Sox fan because a conservative family owns the Cubs. I mean seriously, what is wrong with this guy? When then fourth estate is in the back pocket of the first estate (the government class) who needs any government at all? I mean, he’s a Sox fan now because he doesn’t like the conservative values of the Ricketts?
The state had 4.5 million votes for Gov in 2018. Like almost every other election, over 2,000,000 of them voted for Republican or Republican leaning parties (including the Conservative party and the Libertarian party). The Democrats had 2,479,000 votes. So Dems 55/ Repubs 45. Yet Dems hold a supermajority – aka 3/5th majority in both chambers. D’s hold 68% of the seats in the senate and 63% in the house. This is insane. This is about as bad as gerrymandering a democracy can get. IL Democrats get all crazy about Wisconsin gerrymandering and NC gerrymandering but then hypocritically ignore, how… Read more »
Girlllll stop hating