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.
I understand this may not be the most sensitive way to look at the statistics, but 115000 adult gang members – 5 percent of the population – has to really negatively impact economic productivity- especially if the externalities these gang members generate are somehow measured. It makes me wonder just how many we’ll off productive people (125k and above?) exist to pay off Chicago’s debts. I can envision someone saying gang members pay taxes,but I don’t see it.
Gangs culture to many areas of the south side is akin to Cubs culture to many areas of the north side. Its omnipresent, no matter where you go, it’s always there, one way or another. The gangs are smaller and less structured now that the main guys are all in prison. Most of these murders on the street are adults under 30 shooting at rival ‘gang’ members, when the ‘gang’ is no more than a loose affiliation of people who all affiliate with a larger structure, and they all get their drugs from the cartels to distribute.