Matt joined the CL Bryant Show to discuss what’s wrong with the city of Chicago: the streets aren’t safe, the education system is failing dramatically, the criminal justice system is broken, the city’s finances are a mess — and its politicians don’t seem to care.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- New analysis projects big hit to public pensions in Illinois and the nation from recent market losses
- Four more states move to a flat tax. Illinoisans were right to reject Pritzker’s progressive income tax.
- Illinois economy, jobs suffer under potential presidential candidate J.B. Pritzker
- Gov. Pritzker is still proclaiming Illinois a Covid “disaster area.” How does he do it with a straight face?
- Four things you need to know about mass shootings and the new gun control landscape
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.
Putin can make it happen
Please publish public school performance measures
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Sad but accurate