Number of half-empty Chicago public schools doubles, yet lawmakers want to extend school closing moratorium – Wirepoints
April 19, 2024
19 Comments
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.
She’s right. It is uncharted territory to have a prosecutor who hates the police, loves criminals, and who is paid by and under the direct control of a hostile foreign national
Chicago murders far outpaced the invasion of Normandy. According to historians 10,000 allied troops and between 4-9,000 Germans died. Since Richard J. Daley times 39,981 murders in Chicago according to http://www.heyjackass.com. Probably most is black on black crime and where’s BLM in all this?
Laughable comment from Ms Incimpetent Foxx. Disrespecting someone in the ghetto has been a precursor to the death penalty on the streets of Chicago for decades. Looking at somebody “the wrong way” can get you shot. Talking to someone’s woman can get you shot. A simple discussion can end up with dead people. The typical suburban bbq when held in the ghetto usually accounts for guns being pulled, shots fired and two or three guests wounded or dead. Foxx has just figured this out?
You’re speaking the truth, unlike the Black politicians, activists a d preachers. Additionally, there’s gangs and drugs too. ????