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.
…”Arwady said people need to make decisions based on their own health and the health of those with whom they come into regular contact. If a person does go home to a immunocompromised partner or parent every night, they would need to weigh their options because the virus is still among us, Arwady said.”
Precisely! Let us make our own decisions! It is a free country!!!
Can someone in the media please fact check Lori when she says we don’t want to reopen too early like Florida and Georgia and then face a resurgence of cases? Those states actually have seen decreasing positive test percentages and hospitalizations. And what does Chicago gain by waiting another week or two to reopen? And can someone force her to show her work instead of saying the “science and data show”?
no need to fact check. MSM lies that Florida & Georgia has a resurgence of cases. They have NOT. Anyway, don’t bother with Fact checker websites, they are all Communist/Democrats.
We need to expose Lori for what she is, she is a hater of white people. And Pritzker listens to the West Side Witch Doctor who got everything in-her life by affirmative action.