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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.
Just made a donation.
Keep up the good work gentleman.
Sincerely
Wolfie
Thanks, Wolfie!
My current problem with Wirepoints is that it seems that more and more articles are requiring that you subscribe to their publication in order to access their content and I can only afford so many subscriptions.
Tom, actually, we have been trying to reduce the links the third party articles that require a subscription. It’s an issue we struggle with and we understand the frustration. We recently explained our decision on how to handle it here: https://wirepoints.org/note-to-our-readers-about-links-to-subscription-based-articles-wirepoints/
We get the overall “jist” of the articles without having to pay a subscription fee to the fishwrap is how I more or less see it and in not paying a fee to some of the news sources that were complacent in Illinois becoming the mess that it has become is priceless.
Just sayin…
The daily news summary email I get here is worth more than I pay for the Tribune and your own articles are by far the best! Everybody should be reading this and contribute if you can.
I credit WP for helping to expose Pritzker’s outright lies on Covid and the failed ‘progressive tax’ increase, and helping keep the dishonest media honest. That is cause for my gratitude and a donation!
Thank you wp for fighting for the truth in the great con-job known as illinois..EVERYONE PLEASE CONTRIBUTE!!!
Is now a good time for my annual Wirepoints Christmas party comment?
Remind us.
God bless the internet:
https://wirepoints.org/when-journalists-spin-away-illinois-fiscal-crisis-two-new-examples/#comment-60583
https://wirepoints.org/expansion-coming-to-wirepoints-a-note-to-readers/#comment-4462
Let’s get Fred Klonsky to come dressed as Santa. Free stuff for everybody.
Please post crypto public wallet address for ETH and BTC?
That’s what Vlad uses to send us most of our funding.
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