Greedy Greedy Greedy

The schools got a windfall, but it isn't enough - they're still crying broke:

• Mayor Lori Lightfoot was accused Tuesday of “defunding” the Chicago Public Schools by declaring another record tax-increment-financing surplus to generate a $189 million windfall for CPS, but snatching back $55 million of that money by shifting pension and crossing guard costs from the city to the schools.

  “Folks were irritated by the [proposed] defunding of the police, yet we have watched year-after-year, decade-after-decade of our public school system being defunded. The irony is not missed on me,” said Stacy Davis-Gates, vice-president of the Chicago Teachers Union.

  “All summer long, you had young people who attended Chicago Public Schools saying they felt safest when police officers were not in their school communities. Now the dollars that are supposed to fund their school communities are going to go to prop up a bloated police budget. That is irresponsible. It is tone deaf.” 
  

This is why you don't give young people a vote - they're morons, easily led, and have no idea what is good for them. Kind of the same reason you don't give drunks and drug addicts money.

As for schools being "defunded," we went over a few years of our property tax bills and guess what? Every single year, the allocation for schools went up the maximum allowable under the law. Every single year. And this bitch is whining about covering Crossing Guard costs - something that appears in no other Department's budget and only is used in the schools. Why wouldn't they cover the costs now and why weren't they covering them for years already?

Any word on the 4% layoffs coming up due to a 4% drop in enrollments? Then maybe we can get a 4% refund on our property taxes.