Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago school closings went well, except for...

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago school closings went well, except for...:

Chicago school closings went well, except for...

BEST QUOTE OF THE DAY RE. RAHM... Comes from S-T's Dan Mihalopoulos -- You don’t need to speak español to understand what hipocresía means. 

Sorry to bust any remaining bubbles out there, but no, closing 50 Chicago Public Schools last year didn't save us any money. Quite the opposite. A report from the Illinois General Assembly’s Chicago Educational Facilities Task Force now finds that the closings cost taxpayers over $263 million; that CPS did not plan the closings appropriately, negatively impacting families and students; and that the district has not analyzed or further planned its actions.

Aside from that, everything went splendidly well. Except for...

The report also questions why CPS closed dozens of schools, claiming they were underutilized, while approving 33 new charter schools with more than 20,000 slots in recent years.

CPS' new Liar-in-Chief Joel Hood calls the report “highly inaccurate.” There, that settles that. Rahm's Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago school closings went well, except for...: