A funny thing happened on the way to approving 10 new charters. Nothing happened. They weren’t approved. « Fred Klonsky's blog

A funny thing happened on the way to approving 10 new charters. Nothing happened. They weren’t approved. « Fred Klonsky's blog

A funny thing happened on the way to approving 10 new charters. Nothing happened. They weren’t approved.

by Fred Klonsky

The CPS board was to approve ten new Chicago charters yesterday.

But they didn’t.

The Chicago Board of Education was expected to approve 10 new charter campuses and expand 5 existing charters at its monthly meeting today. Instead, it withheld its vote. Before that non-vote, Board Headquarters at 125 S. Clark was