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.
Tiny violins. He wanted to be governor.
When the EU, which is a consortium of countries under one currency similar to each individual state under the US dollar in the United States, bailed out the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) they put the countries on a new fiscal path with reform including spending cuts and in some cases higher taxes. I don’t see why the U.S. would treat the PIIGS equivalent of states any different. Spending reforms are a condition of any bailout. Much like Greece though, I doubt there will be the political will to inact but Greece now has lower borrowing costs than… Read more »
How about “Filthy Swine”?