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.
The root of the problem: STOP COMMITTING CRIMES
In other news: jail cycling the cause for every 1 in 3 looting incident!!!
One of their sources in the story used a phrase “over-arresting”. What the hell does that mean? Over-crime committing might be a more fair characterization? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
They really just want to be left alone and live in their own ‘no go’ type of community, where the gangs control everything via street justice. You got a problem or a beef with a rival drug dealer? Just take it up with the local warlord drug kingpin on the block, he decides who gets that corner. And if you don’t like it, you get killed. And there ain’t no police coming to solve that crime, ever. But arbitrary street justice by a local kingpin gangbanger is better than constitutional justice from a white cop.