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.
Government can drink around with the insurance industry all they want and that won’t improve basic, costs, value, competition, choice and quality. What will improve it though is open pricing for medical services. Right now all pricing is “hidden” from the patient/customer. Hospitals need to be compelled to publish their prices for known procedures openly. I needed a colonoscopy, I called 3 hospitals to ask their prices, after their consternation over such a simple question, they each answered with 3 wildly different prices ranging from $5,000 to $1500 dollars. Then I called a gastro center in a strip all and… Read more »
horrible situation, maybe I’m crazy but I’m betting heavy on health insurance stocks for 2017 in my dinkie IRA. the fed will have to step in and change Obama-care buy offering insurance co’s big $ incentives to stay in the markets and medicaid & medicare for 2017. all the big Insurance co’s are still tying to merge and merge w hospitals, the feds blocked these mergers to date. mandated price controls wont work. a giant explosion to national debit.