Faculty Lounge: 1 School Closings

Our first show dealt with recent School Closings in CPS. We talked about Mayor Emanuel and CEO Brizard's rationale behind the school closings and the community response to it. The community responses were plentiful and included the opinions of school leaders, parents, students, teachers, and community leaders.

Here are some links to the articles that we discussed in this episode:

• Board of Education OKs shake-ups for 17 schools

• Parents plead with CPS to put off vote on school closings

• Rahm Emanuel to send his 3 kids to private school this fall

• Gangs and Politicians: Map of Chicago Gangs