Chicago School Board To Vote On $1.1 Bln Of Bonds

Board Of EducationCHICAGO (Reuters) – The money-strapped Chicago public school system will depend on a $1.fifty five billion line of credit score in fiscal 2017 to spice up cash move, up from $1.065 billion in fiscal 2016, according to a briefing document launched by the district on Monday.

Catherine Hencheck of the Parents four Teachers advocacy group conceded the 4 Englewood high faculties are below-enrolled. However, she says their closings and alternative with a newly constructed college is a scam and not about moving kids into better faculties. Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2012 appointed Byrd-Bennett, a veteran education reformer, to go the district after the primary academics’ strike in Chicago in 25 years. The district serves around 400,000 college students in additional than 600 schools.

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