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.
Whoa. It looks like Joe and Kamala will push us back into the Paris climate accord, you know, the one where the Chinese can increase pollution for the next 30 years while we must cut now. Can’t have any airshow jets and prop planes wasting all that fuel. Chicago air and water show should be a gonner. Poor restaurant and ice cream shop owners.
Joementia will wave to the Chinese submarines as they fly through the air
One more reason to leave Chicago –if you are there–leave Illinois as well.
Why visit? Kill the entire or all industries of Chicago and Illinois
Not a big deal after the last year of seeing how the city and county are managed. Why would I / anyone want to go there? Greatly increased odds of getting mugged by some jerk Kim Foxx let off with small / no cash bail after mugging one of the senior ladies in Streeterville over the summer. Or my vehicle would get carjacked or trashed. After all the rioting and criminal behavior this summer, feels like it will be many years before people trust each other enough to consider returning to Taste of Chicago.
All of these events find their way into funding the State via the assorted taxes levied upon the event consumers. Apparently Pritzker has not thought any of that through as he cuts off the State’s nose to spite its face.
He is ignorant and dumb
Good .. waste of time events since Chicago Fest was ended.
Classic Punish-the-Taxpayers behavior from Democrat politicians. Instead of cutting costs or laying off a single government worker since the Wuhan Virus fiasco started in March, make the peasants suffer. They don’t want more taxes? Then we will show the chumbolones who is in charge.
When businesses cut back they minimize impact and inconvenience to the consumer. When Big Government cuts back (or fails to get the increase they want) they maximize the inconvenience and impact to the citizens. It ought to be illegal
Do you remember the several government shutdowns under Barack Hussein Obama? Every time they would shut down national parks, national monuments etc. They did stupid things like not letting people walk on the National Mall in DC. Punish the peasants and chumbolones for not letting the Government elites spend like drunk sailors.