Consider these: 10,000 students leave the district as enrollment drops, $1.26 billion in federal COVID relief money spent, 5 days of canceled classes amid a standoff between CPS and its teachers union, 22,114 COVID cases among students (and 9,125 cases among adults), and 4,000 students without reliable bus service early in the school year.
You’re right – in a city with regular bus service why would the kids need to be picked up? When I attended school in Chicago I walked four blocks to grammar school, and in high school walked four blocks to catch the first of two buses – then walked another few blocks to get to the building.
We got a reduced rate because we were students.
If the current students had to take public transportation it would increase ridership and teach the kids how to get around the city.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
CPS’s unreliable bus service is inexcusable for a city that has multiple modes of public transportation.
Thanks, Nixit!
You’re right – in a city with regular bus service why would the kids need to be picked up? When I attended school in Chicago I walked four blocks to grammar school, and in high school walked four blocks to catch the first of two buses – then walked another few blocks to get to the building.
We got a reduced rate because we were students.
If the current students had to take public transportation it would increase ridership and teach the kids how to get around the city.
Win/win.