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.
Illinois sure knows how to dig waaay down into the sludge barrel for their government slime.
Kelly Cassidy you are a two faced individual, your me to movement along with the Springfield 19 is long gone now in Springfield you have just proven it by voting present.
Kelly Cassidy is the worst human being in the senate. She was the woman in the picture pumping her fists after the abortion bill passed. It was her legislation. She uses gender neutral language in the bill because, you know, a total of about 10 non-binary or trans people kill their children in the womb each year. Her twitter feed is a rant of anti-trump conspiracy theories, Moloch worship and degeneracy. Degenerates like her, with no shame, no self-awareness, and morally deficient, are attracted to the legislature because no sane person wants to be there in the bowels of satan… Read more »