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.
Five patients!?!? Five!?
I still don’t why they didn’t use university dorms for this instead of wasting money on putting together this facility in McCormick place. What a clown show. I bet they will now put homeless there to show it being used. https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14735
The mcpier guys are already filing labor greaves. Teamsters Local 727 Contacts Mayor’s Office About Labor Violations At McCormick Place Field Hospital.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/teamsters-local-727-contacts-mayors-office-about-labor-violations-at-mccormick-place-field-hospital-301042310.html