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.
So Illinois raises taxes by 32 percent, obtains 5 billion more in revenue, and still runs a deficit? And yet citizens are now being asked to pony up even more tax dollars, under the expectation revenue is needed to manage debts? History shows that Illinois politicians will just spend all the money received and continue to run deficits. Casting aside the question of whether higher taxes are harmful to the economy or the related question of whether (as progressives must believe) that taxation is exogenous to productivity, can’t all see that the politicians of the state treat money very, very… Read more »