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.
Totally racist article Shows how ethical and racial identity politics have been a part of Democrat politics a long, long time. There literally is no equivalent to this in the Republican party other than the handful of Cubans who vote Republican in south Florida. Otherwise, Republicans are a wide variety of demographics based on income, class, profession, relgiion (evangelics) and so on, all of which are voluntary associations. Whereas Democrat’s demographics are based almost entirely on ethnic background, sexual orientation, and the color of one’s skin. Totally racist