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.
Gosh, at that rate, it will take more than 1.5 years to get to all Illinois residents. Where is the vaccine going? When will there be a schedule. When will the State engage private business, Osco and CVS to get this done? Sheesh.
Lori said the six mass vaccination sites will handle up to 25,000 people a week. That’s pathetic. Everyone complains that the FL vaccination process was a failure…yet they’re actually vaccinating people. Unlike here, where the checklists are so onerous that so few actually get the virus. It gets caught up in the bureaucracy. I say just give it to people that want it. End of story.
Agree you either get it or you don’t just open it up to everyone