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.
Every day she proves again that she is no “reformer” she is like all the others, dreams at night about what she can tax. Cutting back anywhere is simply out of the question. True Reformers scare the hell out of govt bureaucrats directing entrenched budgets. But she scares nobody, because they all know her goal is to tax more to keep their entrenched budgets growing. She is the bureaucrats best friend and the taxpayers/homeowners worst enemy. Same old same old here, it’s fun to watch her squirm though, about figuring out what to tax next or how to kick the… Read more »
You’re right, she’s not a reformer. She never presented herself as a reformer. But she presents herself as something else that starts with the letter “R” which she is very familiar with in the legal world – she is a Receiver. A receivership as defined by Wikipedia: “In law, receivership is a situation in which an institution or enterprise is held by a receiver—a person “placed in the custodial responsibility for the property of others, including tangible and intangible assets and rights”—especially in cases where a company cannot meet financial obligations or enters bankruptcy.” This is exactly what she is… Read more »
How can someone in government be the receiver? That seems like a huge conflict.
Seriously, she’s not an ‘actual’ receiver. But she sure is acting like one. As evidenced by her actions taken above regarding WC oversight, litigation maintenance, pension referral to the state, and so on. What did Rahm do for 8 years other than not waste a crisis?
I feel sorry for lightfoot–shes in a hopeless situation, but shes still not revealing what gigantic debt rahm was hidding. Vindictive taxwinkle hinting its north of $1.4 billion. Dont tax payers at least deserve to be presented the full bill??