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.
The academic who wrote this article is an idiot. He missed the main conclusion. What he is really witnessing is a group of factions that don’t differ much at all ideologically. They are all left-wing-tax-and-spend-put-our-kids-into-serfdom-and-run-the-budget-as-a-Ponzi-left-wing-nuts!
He is splitting hairs trying to paint these factions as somehow different from each other. What he is really seeing is some very minor cannibalization, it’s what communist libs do when they realize they are out of somebody else’s money. And I didn’t even finish college. The author is just another member of one of the factions.
Lori Lightfoot is not capable of governing effectively. When aldermen and/or citizens do not buy into her radical progressive views, shes lashes out at them instead of trying to pitch her vision and compromise. That is not governing. Lightfoot views things from a zero-sum lens. I hope these aldermen wake up and do not succumb to her power grabs.
Lori is a hypocritical phony reformer. She is a machine hack who wants total and complete control. She was elected through the efforts of Rahm’s media sycophants at all the local television stations and the tribune and sun Times. She was also helped by RINO John Lausch who purposely indicted Ed Burke to take out Daley, Preckwinkle and Mendoza to make it easy for lori. And she was helped by the corrupt, illiterate, southwest side political operations of Joyce and Matt O’Shea. She has retained Rahm’s political corrupt types like Ferguson who received a contract extension for covering up the… Read more »