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.
Reading Arthur R. Jensen’s Genetics and Education (pub 1972) nothing much has changed. Jensen was virtually lynched for pointing out that approximately 80% of intelligence is determined genetically, that different groups of people (whose ancestors faced very difficult conditions for long periods of time) have different mean levels of intelligence (which is ALSO genetically determined) and that basically we face a massive predicament, that very large numbers of people now (disproportionately non-Asian minorities) are genetically predisposed to be unable to do economically-relevant work in our (even back then) increasingly complex economy. http://emilkirkegaard.dk/arthurjensen/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Genetics-And-Education-Arthur-R.Jensen-384p.pdf If a zookeeper had a species of animal… Read more »
amen. i’ve been saying the same thing for a long time. Up until about 100 years ago, if you couldn’t make your own way in the world you main option was death.
Unfortunately, the welfare state doesn’t position people to make their own way, it just keeps them alive, dependent, and breeding…and we’re starting to see the consequences of this after a few decades.
This still happens. The difference in life expectancy between the Gold Coast and Englewood is 30 years. There was recently an article about it in the fake news Trib. Actually, birth rates by education levels (as a proxy for income) will shock you. The least educated women – less than high school education (poor), have the fewest number of children; white rich women – particularly rich, highly educated white wealthy women, they have more children than any other group. https://www.statista.com/statistics/241519/birth-rate-by-educational-attainment-of-mother-in-the-united-states/ There are consequences – the disappearing middle class, and the major increase in the size of the……upper middle and upper… Read more »
https://money.cnn.com/2016/06/21/news/economy/upper-middle-class/index.html “The middle class may be feeling squeezed, but the upper middle class is enjoying good times. The upper middle class grew to 29.4% of the population in 2014, up from 12.9% in 1979, according to a new Urban Institute report. It defines this group as having household income of between $100,000 and $350,000 for a three-person family. The rich also expanded their ranks, to 1.8%, up from 0.1%. The middle class, meanwhile, shrunk — to 32%, from 38.8%. And the share of lower middle class and poor Americans also declined.” SOMETHING tells me that this is not what your… Read more »
https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-family-income-in-the-us/ How do you explain this, then? The same publisher, very (VERY) different data, and I call massive BS on it because Educational Attainment correlates fairly well (without looking, I’d guess 0.5 or better) with household income. Also, unless lots of well-educated women are having kids as single moms, statistics on marriage do not line up with this, either. The more educated a woman becomes, the lower the likelihood she will marry. I smell a rat somewhere…. It’s very well established that the Flynn Effect is going into reverse due to the demographics of who is having kids (and mass… Read more »
No actually it makes perfect sense and the data correlates. There are more poor women than rich women, so numerically, there will be more poor children than rich children, But when wealthier educated women do have children, they tend to have more children per mother than poorer women. It seems to be that way at least at my kid’s elementary school, in an upper middle class area, with many families having 3 and 4 children. Which makes sense because the single unmarried mother with three kids on welfare is a bit of a myth, it’s way too expensive and difficult… Read more »
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/08/hispanic-women-no-longer-account-for-the-majority-of-immigrant-births-in-the-u-s/
This data doesn’t break down the # of children per mother, but it does show that foreign born women have birth rates of 77.4 per 1000 vs. native women of 56.2; but overall the birth rate is declining precipitously; but even immigrants are having less more than natives, thus taking up a larger percentage of all children.
Not sure that 80% is determined by genetics. I mean, are you insulting my irish and polish heritage? Is that what you are saying? Otherwise, don’t go down that path. There’s no good outcomes.
Reality doesn’t give a rip about your “no good outcomes.” Reality IS, and one either confronts it or, in insisting it be ignored, continues to produce nothing but failure. The 80% is well-established, despite screaming fits from those who insist it cannot be real (because unlike all other animals, humans are the same all over, everywhere…except the NBA.) There are those who want to literally OUTLAW genetic scientific inquiry because of the fears they harbor about what it will PROVE. The cat’s already out of the bag on that. GWAS (Genome Wide Association Studies) are going on everywhere now, and… Read more »
Let’s just say, hypothetically, that some ‘races’ are less intelligent that others. Just hypothetically. How does that change anything? It changes nothing – constitution still applies to everyone equally and everyone deserves the same protections under law regardless of genetics. That’s what I mean. There are dozens of good reasons to curtail immigration and none of them apply to race. Heck I don’t want more Norwegians here either! I may be further to the right than Trump on that. Bringing race and genetics into any discussion doesn’t lead to anything productive – in fact, it may lead to counter-productive arguments,… Read more »
good get these able bodied leeches off the couch and into job interviews!
Trump took the toilets out of one of his mansions to illegally get a tax break?
Projection is a hell of a drug.
Geeze, Jabba. Not even a year into your first term and you’ve already established yourself as grossly incompetent. So how do you respond? “ORANGE MAN BAD!”
You had me at “grossly.”