Who's Running the Show?
We're pretty sure that the government is supposed to run things on behalf of the people - "consent of the governed" and all that. So how is CPS dictating how the schools are run as money pits?
(yes, we're aware that the CTU runs large portions of the government and Conehead is the union's bitch)
In an extraordinary set of comments Tuesday that brought the leadership tussle at the top of the school system further into public view, Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez said he would not resign at Mayor Brandon Johnson’s direction.
He argued his departure would leave a “leadership vacuum and instability” in his wake and decried “outright lies” about his administration.
Martinez also proposed a self-imposed school closings moratorium until 2027 as a way to fend off what he called a “misinformation campaign” from the Chicago Teachers Union about plans to close schools, a union effort aimed at heightening scrutiny around Martinez’s job status.
And he received a letter of support from a group of leaders that include two former CPS CEOs and a couple dozen city and state elected officials.
There are (at minimum) one hundred schools being under-utilized every single day. And each of these schools are wasting million of dollars on an annual basis in facility and staffing costs. Here are a few:
Sixty-four students in a school built to house almost thirteen-hundred? That should be first on the list, and we don't really care what gang borders are being accommodated.
Taxpayers deserve to have their money spend appropriately and properly. Yes, that's a tall order in corrupt Chicago, but accountability has to start somewhere, so why not at the biggest money drain on the budget.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
45 Comments:
Nearly all public schools are money pits wasting money.
Online home school should be offered to every student as an option the way it is in Indianapolis.
The money savings are astronomical.
I thought that it is the administrations job to decide which schools should remain open and which should close not Stacy Davis zgates.
As long as it’s not an illegal we’re doing okay!
I believe there is a state law that prevents CPS from closing schools. I think it was passed in 2019.
SCC doing the homework for the main stream media
Pro Trump Mother CONFRONTS School Election Worker Registering Daughter To Vote AGAINST Trump!
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well,,,, the "teachers" in those schools have a good point,,,, why do they have to have more students in their schools when they are not really teaching anything to the ones that are there???
Accountability? You have 44 students in a school and not one is proficient in reading and math? It's about time they get rid of the teacher or stop promoting the students to the next grade.
Every school on this sheet needs to be closed this Xmas break. Everyone going to those schools is in educational peril. Conehead must do it.
This is one reason why the Marxists at the CTU want open borders. Open borders means job security for union members and power for the CTU. A strong CTU means millions in campaign contributions to Democrats. I hate Illinois Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Progressive Democrats!!!🤬🤬🤬
Retired in Texas……
Those numbers are freakin criminal….
Where is the outrage?
Where are the marches?
Where is blm and the other out-of-their-mind progressives spewing out re-imagine this & re-imagine that?
That bullet-head mayor can combine all those students in 2 or 3 facilities and close the rest as a start with the budget woes.
There! I re-imagined something for you conehead……and judging by their past test scores the majority seem to be special needs.
Look at your property tax bill….all that chedda going to cps?….I demand a refund for the past 10 years….
Wait, wait, wait……reparations will solve all this!!!!!
Stay safe out there first responders !
Many of those school's students go up north to Taft high school instead. Even their new freshman academy on 4001 N. Oak Park has over 1,200 freshmen .
They are not public schools, in reality they are government schools. It's where they indoctrinate your kids.
The teachers union should work on money, benefits, and work conditions. Why do they have any say in what schools remain open and what curriculum is being taught.
It is amazing that she thinks she is qualified to give advice/orders on how government should be run, but, God forbid if anyone criticizes the teachers and their stunning failures in the classroom and on state tests.
Here's a story that local media should be all over.
Mayor Conehead does not care about wasting money. Now, kees me you fool!!!!
CTU ensuring black kids remain dumb , dependent, and use race as a fallback for failure.
No wonder most end up behind bars or dead.
It is obvious that these people don't care how much taxpayer money gets flushed down the drain. The next time they ask for "more money for dumber kids" we are going to bring this and the enormous illiteracy rate up. I'm tired of paying higher taxes and even more tired of hearing "It's all for the children"...The city of Chicago is being criminally mismanaged...
Michael Scott was the former President of the Border of Education. At one Board Meeting he turned the tables on a group of parents protesting the closing of one these under performing schools.
The schools in question had been on academic probation for at least the prior 10 years. He asked the parents why would anyone in their right minds protest to keep sending their children to a school like Fenger where not a single student is reading or doing math at grade level. Parents were advocating to keep their children failing. He said if my child attended that school I would be here demanding that you get my child out of there immediately. These parents had become pawns of the CTU. Children are failing and the only people gaining anything are Union members.
Seems like a repeat of the same issues. How can CPS justify keeping open a school where not a single student is performing at grade level. What kind of parent allows their child to attend this school?
I wish they had a column indicating how teachers (used loosely) are assigned to each school. Column for support staff wouldn’t be bad either.
Do any of those schools have a chess club? Asking for a friend.
Hirsch class of 1961
"or other duties from time-to-time that may be assigned." Fill the schools with the migrants and require that they learn (and that the teachers teach), English, reading, government, basic arithmetic and economics, if either want their checks from the gov't tit to continue. The educational battle cries for 2025: "No learn - no earn / No teach - no peach." Or, "Don't be a Dunce, Earn your Lunch." Otherwise, divest excess property and personnel.
Imagine if any of your financial providers performed at this level?
Compile all those students into just 4 of the schools. Layoff the unneeded staff. Close down the now vacant units.
CPS budget problem solved.
his name is now bonehead brandon and he is a racist n a hater
Don’t let the cone headed ignoramus bully you Pedro ! You have been doing a respectable job given the current political situation ! The blue gummed, camel tooth bigoted racist CTU puppet wants another rubber stamp running CPS ! He certainly doesn’t want financial accountability, or transparency the same way the corrupt crooked president of the CTU doesn’t ! The property tax payer are being absolutely fleeced by these socialist communist democrats !
If they are broke then print mo money or plant a money tree
While I realize there are geographic/logistical realities that would make it impractical...
All K-8 go to Mason (93.3% utilization).
All 9-12 go to Tilden (86.8% utilization).
Close the other 18 or turn them into living/training centers for the illegals.
Teachers put on their red t shirts for yrs and sit on corners on lawn chairs demanding more money. Half have lived in the city since 1980. Work 6 months a yr. Take hr and a half lunch break to go shopping in Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn etc. Go back to work for an hour and wine about that. Oh yes. Wine right after work. Pay 2% into pension. WHAT A FUCKING WASTE!
Look up definition of "extortion". CTU has no basis for their existence other than their baby sitting/ day care expertise.
A good percentage of recent CPS graduates cannot read a Comic Book and need their phone to make change for a Ten, and the "Educators" want a Raise?
Sixty-four students in a school built to house almost thirteen-hundred? That should be first on the list, and we don't really care what gang borders are being accommodated.
But it's for the chitlins...
Fat boy said today it not a good idea to borrow for operating expenses unless you have a plan to pay it back. He basically told the CPS no help from Springfield. If he gave Chicago money every other school district in the state would be saying "where's mine."
It’s the CTU. They’d find a way to make online more expensive & with 0% reading and math at some of these schools, you really think online is the way to go? Parking with the app alreadg costs you a .35 cent convenience fee for essentially making it less costly for them. Call me stupid, but if nothing more than a daytime holding pen for some of these kids, I’d rather that than them on the street causing havoc night & DAY. If you want to do online, it should come with guidelines- have a certain GPA and only available for upper grades.
Those kids are probably working in a factory somewhere not going to school. The cleaning company that does maintenance where I live had a girl that looked all of 12 working for them last year. Someone made a call and she disappeared the next week. Coyotes aren’t cheap & I’ll bet money some are slinging drugs for the cartels.
CPS doesn't teach much anyway. My kid went to a supposedly good public school but I'd have to re-teach some lessons because her teachers did a poor job. The next day she'd come home telling me the teacher didn't collect the homework because most of the class didn't understand so she spent another day teaching the material which took me about 10 minutes to teach my kid
They will lie, cheat, and steal to keep the schools open and still no kids learning. The CTU uses the which doctor method to lie to the public.
Sad part of all of this is the poor kids still are suffering from the teachers not doing their jobs. And the upper management of this city don't do shit about it.
Holy $hit Batman! Police Commissioner resigns, other top officials jumping ship faster then rats on a sinking ship. WTF is going on in that Democratic/Progressive city?
https://nypost.com/2024/09/25/us-news/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-indicted-by-grand-jury-in-historic-federal-probe-sources/
10 billion budget for CPS. They have 30-40 office people, nurses,deans and other made up spots and that’s not including teachers.. all that for 100-150 students. I was a kid and we had about 500 kids. 2 women worked in the office, an assistant principal and principal.. that’s it. So much waste. Some schools have hundreds of thousands of dollars of unopened TVs, IPADs, computers and other things in their stock rooms that were never used. But they still order them and get them.. CPS could easily cut 2 billion from their budget and it would still be too much. Close these schools and start to combine. No more 100 kid schools.
And when did you realize you were committing child abuse by sending your kids to CPS??
No fan of Pedro, no fan of Brandon. But I do enjoy left on left hostility.
Better check those boxes in the storeroom they probably filled with bricks
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