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.
Lightfoot better grow a pair fast, the FOP is lining up next, and they know what she thinks of cops.
“Among the packages scheduled for delivery this week were testing materials for the PSAT and SAT, scheduled to be administered in CPS on Wednesday if schools are in session. CPS already postponed the tests from their original date of Oct. 16, the day before the strike began. A message from UPS on Friday that one Local 705 member showed the Tribune stated “All High Schools need an attempt today,” and that high schools were in need of testing packets. A CPS official said more than 30 schools had received packages containing testing materials by Thursday afternoon. On Friday, deliveries continued… Read more »
Is now a bad time to ask those Teamsters about their Central States Pension Fund?