100 students in a school meant for 1,000: Inside Chicago’s refusal to deal with its nearly empty schools – Chalkbeat Chicago

A collage of images showing the exterior of entrances to public school buildings in Chicago.The costs are not only financial. Students in the city’s smallest schools have fewer courses to choose from and often miss out on clubs, extracurricular activities, and sports. Chicago’s underenrolled high schools are more likely to have lower graduation and college enrollment rates. They tend to struggle with chronic truancy and higher dropout rates, an analysis found.
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Streeterville
10 months ago

CPS District prior mission is the employment of under-achiever CPS graduates who barely graduated bachelor’s in “education” from 4th-tier diploma-mill schools like Gov State. Gotta fill those schools with CPS teachers, CPS employees, who cares whether CPS students ever attend. The other CPS schools have truancy-rates above 25% chronic absenteeism.

Old Joe
10 months ago

Uh oh……..looks like someone is confusing a Dems job program with educational attainment again.

The Railroader
10 months ago

The gross mismanagement of public institutions in Illinois is nothing if not consistent:

Not enough students to justify a public school’s operations?
Confiscate more taxpayer dollars and keep it open anyway.
Lay off no one. Pad its bureaucracy. Reduce maintenance.

Sound familiar?

No enough riders to justify public transit’s operations?
Confiscate more taxpayer dollars and run it anyway.
Lay off no one. Pad its bureaucracy. Reduce maintenance.

Illinois’ Democrats: An inbreed apart

Fed up neighbor
10 months ago

When, just when will the Illinois taxpayer start waking up to their demise.

Call my shrink
10 months ago

Wait. Banjo will blame whitey for this

Deb
10 months ago

This is simply CTU protecting their jobs.

Where's Mine ???
10 months ago

Why wasn’t chalkbeat (ctubeat) providing any reporting like this during CTU contract? What a joke

Tom Paine's Ghost
10 months ago

Duh. These buildings are not schools. These buildings are simply ’employment’ centers for the vermin of CTU and their allied scumbag public sector union members. CTU has nothing to do with teaching and everything to do with extracting union dues from their lackey parasitic members and stealing from the taxpayers. Period.

Last edited 10 months ago by Tom Paine's Ghost
Leaving Soon, just not soon enough
10 months ago

This is a gross waste of taxpayers’ money.

daskoterzar
10 months ago

Not closing these buildings and dealing with this problem is just stupid. Illustrates that it doesn’t require a six-figure PhD to know what the problem is and how to deal with it.

Hello, Indiana!
10 months ago
Reply to  daskoterzar

Noted PhD holders Johnson and Gates can’t manage to pay a 3K water bill. To expect any financial acumen out of them is beyond foolish.

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