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.
Top Ten Reasons IL is a “Well Run State”
10) Insurmountable Pension Debt
9) Four Governors with Felony convictions
8) Corruption
7) Crumbling Infrastructure
6) TIF Districts
5) Failing Schools
4) Massive Outward Migration
3) Chicago Politicians
2) Decades of Failed Political Leadership
1) TAXES, TAXES, TAXES, & TAXES!!
Over 1000 corruption convictions of politicians etc in the last 20 years. Amazing, but they are still stealing and bribing every chance they get. There are 3 or 4 Chicago pols under indictment along a few more state elected officials. Greed is the first course taught in Illinois Politics 101.
Ok Lori I’ll take that as an indication you won’t be needing any federal money for pensions, or whatever. Great. Everything in Chicago is going so good that even suggesting federal funds are wanted would be like an insult.
It IS a well run state if your goal is ” Into The Ground”
A well run state…a well-run-state? Mayor, the State is broke, in debt up to its rear-end and our elected officials have taken no action in the past 20 years to resolve the financial problems. What are you smoking? She’s like Kevin Bacon at the end of Animal House standing in the street yelling “All is well! – “All is well” as chaos is happening around him.
To say that Illinois is a well run state is to essentially say that a square is a circle
She contradicted herself, bc she DID take business-closings lightly — ignored the Beauty Salons closing and called her haircut a necessary business for one person, herself. What a dreadful person. Kind of like our Gov Hogan in Md…….well he’s a bit less extreme.
Mr Lightfoot truly is delusional can
t decide if shes he`s is a man or a woman and Illinois is run well what were the people of Chicago thinking when they voted for her himHas anyone asked Lori Lightfoot about her stance regarding Tara Reade’s allegations? Remember she said Kavanuagh was “utterly unqualified to be a judge”? ” How does this reconcile against her endorsement of Joe Biden?
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=558315724598542
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/mayor-lightfoots-moral-quandary
Abysmal–NO that is Leftfoot and Pritzker and how they have reacted to this whole situation.
She needs to get tested for Trump-Derangement-Syndrome or Joe-Biden-Disease — utterly delusional.
I’m still amazed that any thinking, rational person would vote for Ms Beatlejuice. Chicago has earned whatever comes it way.
My lord! please tell me she is referring to Indiana. I haven’t hear a single person in a decade claim Illinois is a well run state. Not one single person.
From the point of view of a progressive, the state is well run. Abortion is legal and available everywhere, union members are well compensated and paid more than non-union members, weed is legal, the racist hillbillies south of I-80 have no political power, and the legislature is diverse, and there are ample opportunities for social justice everywhere, which is the by-product of their own progressive policies. What’s not to like? It’s practically a progressive’s paradise!
Nice name calling, again, about people you know nothing about. Let’s see, ISU is south of 80. U of I is south of 80, state Capitol south of 80, etc etc etc. Nice of you to insult a couple of million Illinoisans because of your hatred and disgust of your neighbors. What a failure of a person you are. Kids eating cat food yet? Hope they will soon. Oh and by the way, PAY ME!
You missed the point..why do you hate me so much?
So you’re saying what makes progressives happy is infanticide, burdensome public employee pensions, drug abuse, deep-seated segregation in Chicago, a corrupt legislature, and misguided social engineering that always ignores its harmful consequences? I guess I can’t argue with you, you got me! ;p
Groot’s deadly incompetence has led to Chicago becoming a worldwide hotspot for Covid deaths. Third world nations are handling covid better than Groot. How’s that 3000 bed McCormick hospital doing?
If Ill. is a well run state, then how did it lose $47 billion from unfunded OPEB’s last year?
Never argue with an idiot, because to a passerby, it looks like two idiots arguing.
Sometimes, I should take my own advice!