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.
The disparities are caused by systematic and systemic racism.
“The results showed black participants and those who had poorer health were more likely than white or healthier participants to tell researchers they were “not worried at all” about contracting the virus, the report states.” —So there’s no connection between the high death rate of Chicago’s poor and/or black people from the Wuhan Virus and their attitude as a group that they are “not worried at all” about contracting the virus.The report says its “possibly signal a distrust in public health officials among these populations.” So it’s not the Fox News demographic calling this a hoax. It’s poor and black… Read more »
Northwestern researchers find racial, socioeconomic disparities everywhere
That’s for sure. It’s what they’re good at