Number of half-empty Chicago public schools doubles, yet lawmakers want to extend school closing moratorium – Wirepoints
April 19, 2024
20 Comments
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.
In the private sector you’d be fired long before you missed that many days.
the article states that the CPS office of compliance budget has gone from $900K to $4.4M a year?, but gives no $ figure on the astronomical amount of $ spent on substitute teachers, sick days, FMLA days, etc,,, or if those expenditures are on the up-rise? Just hire more/ pay more. Efficient use of $ is never the issue. All city depts are the same. meanwhile, like most, at my chumbalone job I get 3 week paid– combined sick day/ vacation days a year–which blows.