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.
Crass, but is cancel culture appropriate for this transgression? How exactly is he wrong? What man walks up to a woman and says those things? no one does, he’s merely suggesting, in a crass way, that you cannot be crass when asking clients invest with you. This is not a sexist comment at all, crass for sure, and not PC, but sexist? No. This cancel culture will never end, because there is no end, until we are all puritans. Someone needs to stand up to this cancel culture and no apologize. It really stifles speech, soon few young people will… Read more »
I’ll bet 90% of the institutions leaving Fisher don’t even know why they’re leaving
I disagree, they know. They know they’re participating in cancel culture.