I just glance at the self-imposed incompetency of those running Chicago Public Schools.
The inability to convey education to students is a horrible disgrace.
The only way to understand the system has become blatantly obvious since the Chicago Teachers Union elected Brandon Johnson Mayor.
A friend of mind told me many years ago that the only purpose for government was to provide jobs and contracts.
Now comes this tidbit from Unleash Prosperity Hotline #1266:
Chicago Won’t Even Sell Abandoned School Buildings to Private or Charter Schools
If there is any city in America that desperately needs more school competition, it’s Chicago.
As we’ve written in the past, there are more than two dozen Chicago public schools where no child is reading or doing math at grade-level proficiency, even though the city spends roughly $30,000 per pupil.
The teacher unions have done all they can to stop charter schools, Catholic schools, home schooling, and voucher schools.
The education blob views private schools as “enemy territory” to be colonized.
In 2023, the unions and Governor Pritzker terminated the successful Invest In Kids Scholarship Program that allowed over 9,600 low-income students to escape horrible public schools.
Here’s the latest outrage.
The Chicago Public School system (CPS) is selling off 21 properties, but with the requirement that buyers can’t use them to sell liquor or tobacco OR, get this, reopen them as charter or private schools.
The Chicago Tribune observed: “That’s like selling a candy factory and banning the new owners from making chocolate… If CPS were to create a warning label for this trio, it would read something like: May cause lung cancer, cirrhosis and literacy. This is absurd.”
In many cities with thriving charters and scholarship programs, new alternative schools take over abandoned public schools – and thrive.
But not in Chicago where kids don’t come first.
Protecting the blob does.
