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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.
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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.
You are a great alternative to the main scheme media.
Of course you’re doing ok, I mean, it’s not like your run by Illinois government or anything. Mark and Glenn aren’t going around threatening people that they must fund wirepoints, and if they don’t, things are gonna get friggin ugly (taxation). They aren’t hiring 25,000 people to run wirepoints and creating departments like a punctuation division of standards and borrowing every line of credit available and maxed to the limit.
You are now the leading watchdog on the establishment politicos. There is certainly no Republican or other party challenging them. Keep up the good work. I tell everyone I know that they can’t really know what is going on in this crazy state unless they are reading you every day.
What your team does is not easy. It’s easy for a site to just state a view. But it’s real hard for a site to derive their view from actual data, then state the view. The the view of the latter will collapse under analysis and become propaganda, but a view based on data is solid and truthful.
In an era where journalism is beset by the “partisan rage” business model, it is refreshing and reassuring to have one solid source of objectivity, occasionally sprinkled with some down-to-earth editorializing.
You guys do it right, so thanks for that, and keep pressing on.
Thank you for your courage and commitment. Stay strong and give ’em hell! The iron is red hot!
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