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.
“Legal” weed was NEVER about civil liberties, etc. It, like the spreading cancer of legal gambling, was always about loot.
Democrat politicians would open state-run brothels if they thought they could get away with it.
Wow. So lowering taxes just might increase both sales and tax collections??
Fat boy should take note.
Street corner dealers have zero taxes and plenty of product
All that untaxed heroin on the street corners of the west side too.