Thursday, March 21, 2013

Chicago Closing 54 Schools

On Thursday, Chicago Public Schools announced that they will be making closures to decrease their budget deficit.

Fifty-four programs and sixty-one school buildings will be shut down, after this school year.

The move will affect thirty thousand children, and result in over a thousand teachers and staff being fired.

CPS faces a deficit of more than one billion dollars, this summer, while their planned closures will save them one hundred and thirty-seven million, over the next ten years.

This is the same district that agreed to increase teacher's raises, in September, in order to end a strike.

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