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.
Wow… Maybe J Beluga and Queenie should stop bankrupting all the small businesses in the city and state because that is rapidly becoming their only source of revenue. Oh, and before you chase the few productive citizens that are left in the state out by taxing them even further, you had better consider radically reducing welfare because that is where all the money is going. If you think that I am kidding just look at Blagojevich’s “FamilyCare, KidCare, & AllKids” giveaways and then compare those costs to the “Pension Crisis time line”. Communism, Socialism or whatever you want to call… Read more »
City income tax after they pass a statewide progressive tax. Then at the margin taxes and fee hikes. They will go after business before people. City income tax will be people who make 100k a year or more, 1.5%
Wait a minute– Rahm Emmanual’s emergency $500 million property tax increase solved all the problems didn’t it? Is there anyone left in the City of Chicago who has a memory or the intelligence to ask what happened to the $500 mil? Or is the answer so obvious you don’t even have to ask– it went down the sewer and didn’t solve a darn thing.
The test now is whether Chicagoans will get run over again without an objection.