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.
Quoting himself from his own idiotic campaign ads. But the average voter here doesn’t have the sort of memory or attention span to remember that.
“The third piece of legislation, will allow undocumented … college students to apply for state financial aid.”
I’m sure the African-American community just LOVES this. An illegal can get state financial that would otherwise have gone to an african-american tax paying citizen who follows the rules and lived in IL their entire life. Talk about a Jim Crow law – illegal immigrants get aid before black citizens do. SO keep voting Democrat!
This is truly a racist policy.
Take two high school seniors, student A is college bound and student B wants to do wedding planning and florist work. So student A gets 120k in tuition, earns a sociology degree and goes to work at Starbucks. Student B didn’t get anything. Why not give student B 120k to buy a van, pay rent on a storefront and begin lining up flower suppliers and develop a business plan? Seems fair if we are handing out free money. College is being made “free” not because it is good but because it is a platform of indoctrination. Colleges stand up high… Read more »