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.
Wow, that’s a lengthy bit of claptrap, and guaranteed to be forgettable and improve nothing. If he was honest he’d say “We Democrats have grown the govt so recklessly , raised taxes so much, driven out jobs, provided sanctuary for illegals to get the unskilled jobs…..done basically everything wrong to harm our private sector citizens. We’ve made it virtually impossible for job-creation and financial stability, ESPECIALLY for our unskilled labor force. In short, it’s hopeless. Effective immediately or maybe next year, we’re getting tasers for the cops, body cameras, and stressing that they become psychologists to “communicate” better with the… Read more »