Chicago School Closing Legislation Advances Out of Senate
By Linda LuttonChicago School Closing Legislation Advances Out of Senate
By Linda LuttonChicago Public Schools may have to change its process for closing schools. That’s if the governor signs a bill that passed out of the Senate this week.
The bill originally would have placed a moratorium on all CPS school closings. That provision was stripped from the final bill. The legislation still forms a task force to come up with rules for how to handle school facilities in
MOORE: The bill deals with where schools get built, and how they get built, which schools get repaired first, and also which schools get closed. So it’s a very broad policy that covers all major facilities decisions.
Don Moore is director of a school reform group that lobbied for the legislation. He and others have disagreed with the way the district calculates a school’s capacity. CPS has closed more than 30 schools in recent years that it says were under-used.
A spokesman for the district said it’s too early to comment on the bill.