CPS Raises Taxes Again
And they raised them the maximum allowable:
Chicago's part-elected, part-appointed school Board voted to raise property taxes. While it's a small amount, some Board members say any amount is too much during a time when some residents' property tax assessments have gone way up.
While Chicago Public Schools doors are locked for winter break, the Chicago Board of Education is working. On Monday, Board members convened a special meeting to vote on raising the property tax levy.
[...] CPS is allowed to raise the rate, but it is capped at the lower of either 5%, or the rate of inflation. When the district closed a $729 million budget deficit in August, it raised the levy slightly below the legal limit. Monday's vote was to raise it to the legal limit. All of Mayor Brandon Johnson's Board allies voted for the increase.
Remember, these are the jackasses keeping schools open AND FULLY STAFFED - schools built for 1,000 or more students, but attended by maybe 60 students in some cases, mostly on the west and south sides. And who are graduating kids completely unprepared for a modern workforce, unable to read at a sixth grade level.
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posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
74 Comments:
With student levels down that is unacceptable. The Chicago Public school system. Workers are a bunch of sex offenders and rapist. Deplorable praying upon the young and innocent.
It's the Chicago way...
Maybe the graduation rate of the CPS is the reason Jesse Jackson Jr. was sent to the exclusive St. Albans private all boys high school in Washington D.C.
If the dept goes to twelve hours we should protest city hall to get residency lifted
A 60% or less high school graduation rate. Now there is something not to be proud of. That graduation rate has been like that for the last 5 mayors going back to Harold Washington. One would think the party in charge of the Chicago Public Schools would want to turn that around, but no. We are told the fault isn’t with the teachers, it’s not with the parents/single parent or grandparent(s). The fault is with everyone and everything. The dems in every city/county/state have a vested interest in having ignorance blanket generations of minority kids, who grow to vote for and depend on the party that showers them with bennies. There are exceptions who rise above the herd. Those tax increases are for the children, it’s all about the children.
What the actual fuck is going on???
My tax appeal that I recently won is a joke because my taxes still went up only because of CPS
The teachers will be thrilled when they get back from their TWO WEEK plus Christmas vacation! I recall as a child I would get Christmas Day through New Year's Day off! So tack that onto all the fake days off plus all summer off that the teacher's don't work!
I've got an idea, they make way more than Catholic school teachers....how about a PAY CUT! For the children.
It's all so tiresome...
Minnesota taxpayer scam 2.0🤬🤬🤬
OT
I just got my FOP book yesterday. Some still have not.
Makes perfect sense that the Chicago Board of ED gets a say in how the City should run. Their title is hypocritical clearly.
What an example of complete ignorance.
The only thing CPS is good at is spending money.
Kids can't read
Kids cant do math
Buildings are underutilized
35% of the kids no show
Support staff that does nothing.
CPS is all about waste and incompetence.
A deep flush is needed here
So, this is Coneheads way of raising Property Taxes...Have his allies do his dirty work after promising NO Property Tax Hikes from him. Fuck this City, thank God Im moving out of it soon.
Where oh where is the OVERSIGHT of all this money being siphoned off the hardworking taxpayers to support an unsupportable amount of government workers (Dem voters) who are enriching themselves as the school population decreases, school attendance is less than half in many schools, and the outcome (graduation) is a total farce? Billions for them with no end in sight!
These numbers are all bullshit. On my last condo tax bill my taxes went up over 30%. And it was all under the CPS line. And mayor Dummy thinks those that use the system shouldn't have to pay their bills.
DemocRATS destroy everything they touch
CTU rules the roost.
FYI...there are more non-teaching CPS positions then there are Chicago police officers
More mass exodus from Shitcago. You can’t keep dipping your hands into other people’s pocketbooks and expect them to stand still while you do it. This place is an absolute disaster.
How about the DOJ mandates a Federal Consent Decree. The systemic misuse of federal, state, county and city funds being used to not meet educational mandates are causing Black and Hispanic children to fall into a poverty trap. Intergenerational poverty and increased risk of crime are being reinforced by the lack of basic education. Its costing all of us, not just financially.
F- all you people sending your kids to this school system because it’s free !! Cheap fucks !
My brick single-story 1885 home in 010 went up 125%
Yea ok, you cant even get lazy ass coppers to get out and vote let alone protest...thats some funny shit...Baahahaha
Very true..we would be in school till the day before Christmas Eve!!! CPS teachers are getting lazier and lazier...fuck the students.
The CPS is still on a drunken Covid money spending spree even though the COVID money is long gone. Currently a cost of 31k per student and climbing.
So what..you got it didnt you...geez the whinners
I think a forensic audit needs to be done with CPS. You want more money we want to know where the money is going. Accountability.. I don’t even have kids wtf and if I did I would put them in private school.
This is true, the cowardly, lying bastard!
Who or what gives these BS school boards the authority to raise taxes?
When are we getting the VRI money?
Despite a $9.9 billion budget, CPS students lack basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills. CPS answer was to lower the standards and raise our taxes.
Yet, Alderman Vasquez and the Socialist Democrats are concerned about financial waste and is looking at cutting police budgets while continuing to support No Cash Bail Project.
Minnesota has its Somalia fraud. Chicago has its CPS fraud.
D.O.G.E. CPS.....
I want credit for calling this. I knew that CPD was greedy enough to pull this after the last tax hike. No one is calling for budget cuts here either btw... They have become so arrogant that they will just raise taxes every year because they can regardless of the political climate.
Chicago has become unlivable. Mostly because of the tax burden. I now advocate for lifting the residency rule for CPD. I will be firing off a strongly worded e-mail or two later this morning.
Apples and Oranges. There are more Chicago citizens per capita than CPS students. What's your point?
With the graduation rate below 50% why not close half the schools?
That’s because of the city’s reassessment that courts every 3 years
the teacher's union reported that only 5 out of 3 students can't do math
Nothing to worry about, Potter told the feds about Stacy and CPS.Stay tuned it’s going to be a blockbuster.
There’s mountains of waste and I wouldn’t be surprised if there were fraud too. But they never cut waste and spending. Their only answer is to tax the working people.
Then DEI forces these uneducated kids with their school caps and diplomas into positions they're not qualified for and the rest of us have to suffer them.
Now they can go on more trips to Hawaii and Europe on "official business"
and with this latest increase in taxes there will be even more high school graduates that cannot read or write
They are cutting the budget for police, the coppers are actually needed and work! The teachers in the cps indoctrination centers, definitely need to be massively reduced! Why are so many allowed to break the laws? like the simple 1 that calls for residency, if a copper gets caught outside the city living, they are terminated, but yet so many cps idiots live outside! What do you expect with a delusionally crazy mayor who cannot even pay his water bills? So many schools with few students but extra staffs making so much cash,and huge pensions for what?
Its only a matter of time before the house of cards known as the CPS falls and the entire agency is gutted and fed to the lions!
Por los ninos.
Why you care.
And the band played on...
How is it that the school board can raise taxes? I thought the city council is the only taxing authority in the city. That’s BS
Most are political pooches put in by the Democratic Party. The ones appointed by the Mayor and the ones supposedly elected by the people.
And who are graduating kids completely unprepared for a modern workforce, unable to read at a sixth grade level.
Why work when you can just twerk to a catchy democratic tune?
Nunca
Another paper tuff guy
No wonder why the politicians get away with raising
Taxes anytime they want. It’s citizens like us who have no
Idea that there are multiple taxing authorities allowed to raise
Revenue within the county. Never had a corse in civics
Or government. ? Our young ones have been kept unaware
Of what really exists in our governments. No wonder
Why this happens, we have been taught to be stupid.
This is Chicago Sun-Times headline "CPS Board OKs small property tax hike, but cash-flow problems likely to persist". Now let me ask is the paper bias?
Tied up on court!
Welcome to Cook County. Where a loss is called a win-win. Been here long?
Cook County has approximately 2,200 local government agencies that are involved in the collection of taxes, including school districts, municipalities, and other public entities. These agencies work under the oversight of the Cook County Treasurer's Office, which manages the property tax system.
Nothing is going to change, ever! The city and state are totally controlled by the Dems, and they will never touch the CTU. Closing the empty schools, actually teaching the students, cut down on absenteeism, investigating the sexual misconduct by teachers are never going to happen.
Allowing the school board to levy taxes is a joke. How many of them are actual residents of the city? This will not affect many of the teachers and administrators because they don't live in the city. (See Indiana Stacy). There never will be accountability.
Get this: The Fuckheads are in charge from top (Governor) to bottom (the CPD). Do any of you actually see that things are going to change?? I retired 29 years ago after 28 years on, and it has only gotten worse. Where is Superman???
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Only 40% of the police are registered to vote. Just look at the FOP elections Your lucky if there are 5000votes. But the biggest whiners are the non voters. Been that way for years Same for the fire department.
How many days, weeks, or months do these so called teachers actually work ?
Prior to the tax cap law, these fucks were driving everyone out of their homes posthaste. After the tax cap law? Still taxing the shit out of you, just a bit slower - they're allowed something like 4 or 5% max, so of course every fucking year they TAKE THE MAX because they don't want to "leave money on the table".
Total bullshit to allow those who get to tax you to set the rate. They set the rate early on in the year during a meeting with an agenda item that obfuscates the actual purpose with something like: "Discussion of funding for upcoming year..." (not mentioning a thing about property taxes).
Then later in the year when they VOTE on the rate, they have to announce it in the paper with an agenda item that actually refers to the Property Tax Rate. PUBLIC HEARING FOR PROPERTY TAX RATE, and so on...
The taxpayers show up en masse to pitch a fit, and the Board members listen to the Public as they are required to... Then when it's all said and done and the Public is ready to tear the Board members a new asshole, they "Call for the Vote" and pass the thing. When called out on it, they say "Oh, this is just the meeting to pass the rate we discussed previously. You should have been at the prior meeting to give us your thoughts on the rate... too late!"
I'm a big fan of requiring all these bullshit Boards and Districts to have to put all tax increases up for a vote before the public... You want to take the cap? Great. Let's vote on that...see how it does.
And when "the max under the cap" isn't "enough", they have the audacity to call for a Referendum which is a whole other story...
Didn’t get mine yet
We all know many coppers who have the jacked up Dodge pick ups $100,000 rides go on fancy vacations but yet the most precious ass that they have their children they send these garbage disposals because actually without a doubt they do not care about their children
Fuck the CTU, make their salaries dependent on the performance of the students. Its a haven for communists, DEI and sex offenders.
Stalin would be proud of the way democracy works in Chicago. The party makes the decisions, selects candidates, and counts the votes.
LOL! They would just vote in lockstep with their CTU spouses! Better they don't vote!
Obviously! " ... more non-teaching CPS positions 'than' there are Chicago police officers ..."
Agree! More concerned with football, Netflix and their pickup trucks than their kids.
Time to break the CTU!
Cops should be teachers! Put them back in the schools immediately!
If they don’t raise taxes,they can’t continue to donate tens of millions of dollars to the democrats reelection campaign.
Even Superman gave up after Chicago elected Lightfoot and Brandon.
CTU is just a branch of the Chicago communist party
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