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Chicago Public Schools parent Deepak Jha says he and his first grade son, Vansh, can only keep up their daily three- to four-hour round-trip commute on public transportation for so long. “It’s not sustainable,” Jha said, adding that despite departing before dawn, his son has been tardy nearly every day. And on four separate days, he had no choice but to keep Vansh at home rather than make the commute, due to work demands.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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I’m sure CTU/Brandon’s kids are riding the bus to Portage Park & Hyde Park selective enrollment schools from dis-invested Austin? NOT!!
This is crappy services you get for your $30g a year CPS/CTU education,,,,a pathetic joke.
CPS stumblefucks can’t even do the basic stuff of running schools — no wonder parents are dumping CPS