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.
“Illinois higher education in disarray; can it be saved?’
You know what it means when the headline contains a question….the answer is always ‘No’
Actually the answer is always more money. It took this article a few paragraphs to get to that, but eventually it walked into it.
The faculty and and administrations have fouled their own nests. In most cases it’s not a matter of technological displacement. Math and hard science may be worth preserving but as to the rest a slow death is basically assured. First the administrators fire everyone not tenured; then they fire those with least seniority. What’s left will be primarily high-paid and high-cost (health-wise) burnouts. Graduates with life-long loads of debt are beginning to realize that they are unemployable at compensation that will service their debt. (Perhaps they’ll be able to buy houses in Chicago.) Everybody including the professors and administrators could… Read more »