Number of half-empty Chicago public schools doubles, yet lawmakers want to extend school closing moratorium – Wirepoints
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.
Just break the contracts, break the promises and take our pensions away, right corporatists?
Sometimes the “must-do’s” trump the “should-do’s.” Whatever one thinks about honoring pension obligations, the math just doesn’t work for it to happen. That’s largely what this site is about.
No matter how small the reforms are the pols will tell us how great they are and our dumb voters will believe them.