Obama's Chicago: Schools Close, 1000 Teacher Lose Jobs

From the Chicago Sun Times: Chicago Public Schools on Thursday announced the largest school shakeup in the nation: closing 54 schools and 61 buildings, jostling 30,000 kids and giving pink slips to more than 1,000 teachers.

Schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett has handled large-scale closures before but Chicago has not, and her decision includes building swaps not seen before in the city.

Despair and dismay circled through the district as word trickled out Thursday about affected schools, before CPS officially released the list at 5 p.m. Most of the targeted schools are in the city’s black and poorest communities on the West and South sides.

But the list also shocked a group of parents and teachers of five schools that had been considered safe from closing who learned Thursday in a confusing twist of events that their kids would have to travel across neighborhoods to new buildings to remain in their own schools.  http://www.suntimes.com/19009310-761/cps-shakeup-54-schools-closing-30000-kids-affected-1000-teachers-losing-jobs.html

Chicago Public Schools is a failed school district, much worse than most urban school districts.  In addition, the teachers in Chicago are very highly paid for producing poor results.

This is Obama's Chicago.