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.
There’s a quote from some House Rep. in 1910 or whenever the Federal Income Tax Act was passed, he said that the income tax only applied to the wealthiest 1% in the country, and there was no one in his house district that earned enough to pay the tax, so he was voting for the Income Tax.
100 years later, look where we are now.
It’s totally a bait and switch, you’d have to be a complete moron to believe anything that comes out of Springfield.
I say this often, but people just aren’t cynical enough anymore. You can point to countless anecdotal evidence to the contrary and they still believe what politicians tell them. I guess it’s just easier for them that way.
One thing I’ve learned from my immersion in Illinois problems is that maximum cynicism is always wise. Applies to this poll, too.
just wait till next year when the city of Chicago once again doesn’t have enough money… municipal income taxes are on the way!
Just more reason to be glad we’re leaving next year.