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.
That’s the problem with Democrats. They vote Democrat their entire life until their home is destroyed, and then leave, and vote Democrat again in the new state, and start the process all over again. Red western states complain about California blues all the time. They’ve wrecked Colorado, they’re about to wreck Idaho, Texas and they’ve turned Nevada completely blue too.
To rub salt in the wound, she’ll take a hit on selling her house. Who wants to pay $20K in property taxes?
We visited some friends over in Indiana the other day, and found out they pay less in property taxes on their house than the amount on ours (which we thankfully don’t own. Grandparents’old house rented from my parents) despite the fact that theirs is assessed at nearly 3x the value. Makes us all the more glad we’re moving there once my wife finishes her degree next year. In Illinois, property is a liability rather than an asset.
Great story. I can’t blame her. And you can add my name to list of people who want to leave.
Well I do blame her. I bet she has voted democrat all her life and now she is complaining about her property taxes. What did she think she was voting for all these years! She was voting for more government and bigger pensions.