Chicago Tribune
Former education blogger Seth Lavin posed 10 questions to Chicago Public Schools officials about the school closing plan, including
You’ve estimated $500K in savings per closed school. Does this mean closing 100 schools solves only 5% of the $1B CPS budget deficit?
What data exist that shows closing underperforming schools results in academic gains for students?
You say CPS mishandled its last round of 10 closings. Will you share your analysis of what went wrong, and how this will be different?
Given that you included 5 of last year’s 10 turnaround schools on the new possible closings list, do you regret those turnarounds?
CPS has responded and Lavin has shared the answers (below) with me and several other bloggers...
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