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.
There is one very easy way to kill the red light cameras without having to do anything directly to the program. Simply make right turns on red a YIELD instead of coming to a full stop. I saw a stat a couple years back that the vast majority of tickets are these (over 80%). They know it, too, and will fight to the death to keep that law from hitting the books. Even if you come to a very slow roll at 2mph, you will get a ticket. It’s a ridiculous application of no common sense, but that’s how they… Read more »
Best way of removing the appearance of it being a conflict of interest would be for the city to give all the proceeds to Make A Wish foundation. That way children with a terminal illness would benefit from scofflaws, and the city could say they aren’t doing it for the money. It’s always been “for the children”, hasn’t it?