WTTW
On a March 2013 episode of “PBS Newshour,” then-Chicago Board of Education Vice President Jesse Ruiz voiced frustration that Chicago Public Schools had repeatedly shut down more and more school buildings each year.
“We’ve been doing this a little bit at a time for the last decade,” he said at the time. “We’re frankly weary of having (to) go through this every single year in Chicago, every spring is school closing season. We want to be done with this business now, get it done with, rightsize the district. It’s frankly something that should have been done, that has been a problem that’s been a decade-long in the making.”