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.
Four years ago I told a SF resident I felt less safe in their city than I did in Chicago despite Chicago’s horrific murder count. The reason being you could sense the chaos building in SF as the city lost respect for itself. Panhandling, vagrancy, open drug use, public indecency were everywhere. As a law abiding citizen, you become a target simply by walking around. The justice system doesn’t favor the white oppressor. If I had to defend myself in a situation, who knows how it might be exploited by the political class to advance their social justice con. At… Read more »
Well said. I’ve heard the term “clown world” thrown about a lot lately, and sadly that’s about the best description of the 21st century so far. Everything has been subverted, inverted, and turned around. This is what it looks like when the bad guys win.
Nicely put. Beware the longer game out of City Hall, one in which CPD is de-funded by shifting monies away from policing and into City programs. These will end up feeding the gangs, one way or another.
Yes, social workers will discourage the 20 year old gang bangers from the thug lifestyle.
The President should say nothing more about this subject.
Clearly the BLM’s, Mayor and Governor have everything completely under control here.
So the rest of Illinois’ idiot residents should just shut up, turn up the volume and then:
Burn baby burn, burn baby burn…