Does Chicago’s Near South Side need a new $120 million high school? – WBEZ (Chicago)

As CPS officials ask the Board of Education to approve their $70 million share of the project on top of $50 million from the state, they have yet to make a case — beyond the clamoring from the area for a school — for whether Chinatown, the South Loop and Bridgeport’s needs justify spending so much of the school system’s resources on a new building amid plummeting enrollment citywide.