According to Cook County clerk David Orr, in the last year alone $660 million in property taxes went into tax increment financing (TIF) districts.
Tag: Raise Your Hand coalition
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Rahm’s budget speech filled with whoppers and half-truths
The mayor did what he does best: avoid reality and praise himself.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Governor Rauner’s school-funding Hunger Games
The Illinois governor is once again toying with the futures of Chicago Public Schools students.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Funding schools with property taxes hurts Chicago students
Case in point: Wealthy Winnetka spends at least $7,000 more per pupil.
Posted inBlogs
Message to Yo-Yo Ma: Don’t believe everything Mayor Rahm tells you
Just because Mayor Rahm says every public school student gets two hours of art each week doesn’t mean it’s true.
Posted inBlogs
The TIF wash—et tu, Bright One?
Any way you slice it, TIFs takes hundreds of millions of tax dollars from things we say we want, like our public schools, and spend them on things we never asked for, like a basketball arena for DePaul.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Best Public School Parents
Tie: Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, Raise Your Hand Coalition, and Parents in Beverly, and Mount Greenwood
Posted inBlogs
The CPS Babysitting Club
Let’s be honest—some parents just want the schools to babysit their kids.
Posted inNews & Politics
Huberman’s Miracle
A sop to angry parents—and a slap at the teachers’ union
Posted inNews & Politics
The Armies Are Gathering
Now that the word’s out about how TIFs suck money away from the schools, parents are rallying to raid the kitty.