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.
What does it say about Illinois when even the population of Michigan has grown over the last decade? JB can deny it as much as he wants, but he is steering a sinking ship. He isn’t interested in doing what is necessary, and continues to try his jedi mind tricks on his constituents, trying to convince them that all is well. He has no plan.
The Illinois ship of state hit the iceberg years ago and has been steering in circles to avoid going under.. The hole in the side is getting ripped open wider and greater amounts of seawater are entering the hull. All the while the ship is slowing. People have saved themselves by launching the available life boats and life rafts and made it to the safety of other states. Those that have remained on the deck watching will soon realize that there are no life boats left as they go down with the ship when it soon founders..