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.
Even more sickening Is that Moody’s is in on the scam too. Watch our credit rating actually go up a few points soon. Their bond customers collude with Moody’s, Moody’s colludes with the state, the state colludes with govt employees and unions and actuaries. Lots of back patting going on at the expense of taxpayers and the next 5 generations of kids.
The legacy media enables their callousness by failing to critically report on the issue.
Stomach turning. Such disrespect for citizens!
We’re hostage to their egos and to their willful blindness.
They must believe they were elected to merely play a role without any real consequences.
May god have NO mercy on their souls!
What souls? They clearly have none.