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.
Is this comment a joke Senator Lightford? Your state is the laughingstock of the entire country and gets international criticism for just about every aspect of your fiscal management. You have the silliest Covid restrictions in the entire country. Four or five of Chicago’s major industries are on the verge of extinction. Your expressways have turned in to shooting galleries. Crime is out of control and national websites report almost daily on the shootings and fatalities in the City. Your public schools are closed and the at home learning program is a disaster.. You have to put the bridges up… Read more »