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Originally Posted by moorhosj
This seems like an over-reaction in the opposite direction. The move in Englewood to close 4 under-performing and under-enrolled high schools in order to build a new state-of-the-art STEM high school seems like a more reasonable path. It lowers the long-term costs of maintenance and administration, but also shows the city is investing in these communities.
Charter schools have not saved education in these neighborhoods and simply closing the remaining public schools probably won't solve the problem either.
The Englewood high school has gotten a good response so far: |
CPS has lost over 30,000 students in the last 3 years. That's on top of a decade of student population loss. It's not an overreaction, it's the truth. Building 1 new high school to replace 4 is not a bad idea assuming the 4 are closed.