Chicago Sun-Times
One of every three freshmen seats in Chicago Public Schools classrooms remain unfilled less than three weeks before the school year is scheduled to begin, figures from the district’s new high school-enrollment system show.
In fact, the district projects more than 14,000 of its 40,000 seats for freshmen will go unfilled despite the new GoCPS application system, which was designed to make the at-times daunting high school-enrollment process easier and to help students match up with the 250 schools and programs with available seats. Students seeking admission to high schools for this upcoming academic year, which begins Sept. 4, were allowed to list — in order of preference — up to 20 schools on their applications...