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.
Pritzker should be ashamed of himself. Honestly.
I hope that the parents who are victimized by these ruthless teachers unions howl and scream at the SOB occupying the governor’s office.
Because he deserves every scream. The man makes me sick.
The CTU look at the low income students who can’t escape the failed CPS system in the same way East Berlin border guards looked at their citizens. They cannot stomach even one of their pawns getting a chance at a better education.
No analysis as to the ‘good vs bad’ of the very modest tax credit, just that the teachers union doesn’t want it. And Pritzker and Democrats will eagerly comply. I strongly believe the teachers union doesn’t want the private school tax credit because it reminds everyone of the complete failure of public education in Illinois.
Was reading 75% of scholarships go to low income kids of color….so much for solving the systemic racial education divide because the overwhelming white teachers unions got to feed at a trough that’s never big enough