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.
It is called steal every forthcoming election.
There will never be another fair and free election in America. Not now.
I don’t support this bill at all but I have an alternative take on this. At least the state legislature is formally addressing it as it should and not an unelected state bureaucracy unilaterally as seen in other states (WI, MI, PA). I truly hope those state legislatures strengthen their election protocols to ensure what we witnessed in 2020 never happens again.
HB 1973 proposes only demoncrats be allowed to vote. Its expected to pass in the Illinois legislature
Anyone who is not a dem might as well end all hope in IL that they have remaining in this state.