Talk on the street
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| Congressmen Danny Davis and Bobby Rush lead walking tour to dramatize the daily trip students will have to make to their receiving school. Safety is a major concern of parents around the proposed closings. |
A cabbie who works 125 Clark St. tells me that in addition to the latest round of closures, CPS plans to open 14 new high schools next year, of which 12 will be charters. One is actually called "Social Justice" (not to be confused with the real Greater Lawndale High School for Social Justice on 31st and Kostner). The other two schools are an IB school and a school for the medical professions.
Cabbie's comment: "The madness has yet a new tentacle."
NUMBERS DON'T ADD UP
EdWeek blogger Marilyn Rhames is not a mathematician. But she can add. And when she does, the number