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.
Here’s a must-read article interviewing Freeman Dyson, a Princeton physicist, about global warming science. http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2013/04/climatologists_are_no_einstein.html
I love the way that Economist article put it,which is that earth turns out to be more “insensitive” to carbon pollution. The planet is too insensitive, so it hasn’t cooperated with the warming scare!
The libs will never give up on this. No matter what new facts emerge on the science, the left is all-in on carbon reduction no matter how many billions get wasted.