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.
In Illinois, read the fine print. Public Act 101-32…amends the County Motor Fuel Tax Law, 55 ILCS 5/5-1035.1: 1) “increasing the initial maximum tax rate that can be imposed from four cents per gallon to eight cents per gallon and that the rate may not be less than four cents per gallon.” So Will County has the freedom to enact the tax BUT the state set an arbitrary floor as to impede competition between the counties. I’m sure Cook County is dying for the collar counties to raise their rates so they can also raise their 6 cent rate. 2)… Read more »
This is what happens when orange man bad and the county goes blue. Sad place out there in Will County.