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.
You know its going nowhere when Trump tower hurting fish in Chicago River rates higher
The lack of public outrage is not so amazing when you consider that CPS is a political organization whose business is to not educate children (or protect them, God forbid) but to serve as a funding source for way too many entitled teachers and administrators and as a patronage farm for Rahm and fellow travelers. In addition, parents are afraid to complain too loudly, as teachers and administrators and politicos will make sure they or their kids pay for breaking the omerta. Welcome to the progressive worldview where politics trumps the good. Hear no evil. See no evil. Never, ever… Read more »
If only the children in our state school system had as much legal protection as the adults in our state pension systems. Who’s being diminished and impaired now?