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.
Bailouts are coming no doubt about it. Whether they are long term discounted loans that are forgiven at a later date or straight up cash. Call it what you want but they are on their way.
WOW!!–If enacted, why even bother with state sovereignty. Its all out debt-don’t matter MMT socialism, the feds will solve everything….and at that point its just a matter of–WHERES MY MULTI-MILLION $ RETIREMENT DEAL MR MADIGAN???
What could go wrong!? Good grief.
The Democrats say yes! The Democrats want total government control over all human activity. No private markets, no uncontrolled transactions of any type, no private property, no independence from the government