It will take me a couple of days to digest and and write about so many events surrounding CPS schools. But let me give you a very brief synopsis of happenings in the past 24 hours.
Despite a district -wide budget deficit, the closing of 49 neighborhood schools, major cuts to the budgets of the individual schools and laying off 3,168 personnel, Mayor Emanuel is doling out bonuses to the principals of schools where there was academic growth.
The State of Illinois on Thursday announced that $89 million is being awarded to CS to make capital improvements of which $16 million can be used to alleviate overcrowding. Wow, that's interesting. I thought CPS just got done, this past spring, saying that so many schools were not crowded and were underutilized. Which is it?
On Wednesday, August 28th various city activist groups are call for a 1-day school boycott. The boycott is attempt to call attention, as the Chicago Sun-Times reported,to the show CPS that education is a human right and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
I'll comment on all of the these in the next few days. They certainly warrant our attention.
Dick
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