Rahm Emanuel to Close 54 more Chicago Schools in Poor Neighborhoods

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Tony Lee @ Breitbart

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office indicated Thursday he plans to close 54 elementary schools in poor, predominantly black neighborhoods because Chicago public schools face a $1 billion shortfall.

According to the Associated Press, “many of the schools identified for closure are in high-crime areas where gang violence contributed to a marked increase in Chicago’s homicide rate last year.” These schools are in “overwhelmingly black and in low-income neighborhoods.”

In addition, “about 30,000 students will be affected by the plan, with about half that number moving into new schools.”

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said she intends to fight the mayor every step of the way to prevent the closures, which may be finalized in May.

“Rahm Emanuel has become the ‘murder mayor.’ He is murdering public services,” Lewissaid. “Murdering our ability to maintain public sector jobs and now he has set his sights on our public schools. But we have news for him: We don’t intend to die. This is not Detroit.”

Chicago Public Schools claimed the plan could “save the district $560 million over 10 years in capital costs and an additional $43 million per year in operating costs.”

The potential school closures could also endanger schoolchildren in neighborhoods already plagued by shootings. Those who oppose the plan said closing the schools would “erode troubled neighborhoods and endanger students who may have to cross gang boundaries to attend school.”

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Rahm Emanuel to Close 54 Chicago Schools in Poor Neighborhoods

Aah, what the heck. the kids won't miss school that much. They're too busy learning how to build and shoot guns.

 

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Cool.

 

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Chicago...

The New Detroit....

 

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from the article-

Emanuel and schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett say the closures are necessary because too many Chicago Public School buildings are half-empty, with 403,000 students in a system that has seats for more than 500,000. But opponents say the closures will further erode troubled neighborhoods and endanger students who may have to cross gang boundaries to attend school. The schools slated for closure are all elementary schools and are overwhelmingly black and in low-income neighborhoods.

my question is; when does the minority hating, putting those teachers and administrators out of work evil douche-bag Rahm media blitz start?


answer- never, hes a Democrat......this will be seen as a wise and prudent move.

 

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Tony Lee @ Breitbart

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office indicated Thursday he plans to close 54 elementary schools in poor, predominantly black neighborhoods because Chicago public schools face a $1 billion shortfall.

According to the Associated Press, “many of the schools identified for closure are in high-crime areas where gang violence contributed to a marked increase in Chicago’s homicide rate last year.” These schools are in “overwhelmingly black and in low-income neighborhoods.”

In addition, “about 30,000 students will be affected by the plan, with about half that number moving into new schools.”

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said she intends to fight the mayor every step of the way to prevent the closures, which may be finalized in May.

“Rahm Emanuel has become the ‘murder mayor.’ He is murdering public services,” Lewissaid. “Murdering our ability to maintain public sector jobs and now he has set his sights on our public schools. But we have news for him: We don’t intend to die. This is not Detroit.”

Chicago Public Schools claimed the plan could “save the district $560 million over 10 years in capital costs and an additional $43 million per year in operating costs.”

The potential school closures could also endanger schoolchildren in neighborhoods already plagued by shootings. Those who oppose the plan said closing the schools would “erode troubled neighborhoods and endanger students who may have to cross gang boundaries to attend school.”

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Rahm Emanuel to Close 54 Chicago Schools in Poor Neighborhoods

Aah, what the heck. the kids won't miss school that much. They're too busy learning how to build and shoot guns.

A billion in the hole and the plan is only going to save 99 million a year.

And we know rahms a lying fuck, so those numbers are much lower.


But on the plus side, kids in good schools get to learn how to deal with hardened thugs that don't give a fuck.

 

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Chicago...

The New Detroit....

This gives me a great idea for a new business

Give bus tours of the ruins of detroit.

Kinda like Egypt meets Lancaster meets Jonestown

 

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Backlash to Mayor Rahm's school closures...

Chicago aldermen blast school closings, worry about children’s safety
March 21, 2013 - One alderman called it a “slow death” politically and worried about real bloodshed triggered by “babies walking through gang turf.”

Another questioned how a Police Department so short of manpower it’s paying 400 officers a day to work overtime in high-crime neighborhoods can guarantee the safety of kids traveling further to school. Thursday was D-day for Chicago aldermen, who found out after numerous public hearings and countless hours of behind-the-scenes lobbying how many schools in their wards will be closed, consolidated or turned around. It wasn’t pretty. On all-at-once orders from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago is embarking on the largest public school upheaval the nation has ever seen. “If this thing don’t work, it’s a time bomb waiting to explode — for all of us. …It’s a mistake to close a whole bunch of schools at the same time,” said Ald. Walter Burnett (27th), whose ward has five school closings and ten impacted schools. “I don’t know how they’re gonna stop violence from happening. These little babies have got to walk through gang territory. On the West Side, unfortunately, every other block is a different gang. I hope it don’t stop kids from going to school.”

Burnett noted that near Cabrini Green, two schools are being consolidated that have been “fighting since I was a kid. ... These are life-long grudges.” He added, “In some of these neighborhoods, parents can’t even take their kids to school. It’s not safe. It’s worse for parents than it is for kids. Police have got to show me a real plan about how they can keep people safe. I don’t believe it.” Ald. Jason Ervin (28th), whose West Side ward has 11 impacted schools, added, “My biggest concern is safety and distance. Those two go hand in hand. We have to make sure that, whatever happens, the students are safe. I don’t want to see another Derrion Albert situation. That’s something that will be squarely on the shoulders of CPS.” Derrion was an honors student beaten to death in a mob attack near Fenger Academy in 2009.

Ald. Bob Fioretti (2nd), whose ward has close to 20 impacted schools, recalled that it took 10 police squad cars and helicopter hovering overhead to ensure the “safe passage” of students after the 2008 murder of Ruben Ivy outside Crane H.S. caused attendance to plunge to 30 percent. “We don’t have enough police officers on the streets to ensure the safety of these kids. We are stretched so thin right now, we’re racking up overtime at an unbelievable rate. And we’re not even talking about the impact on guys and gals on the street and them being tired,” Fioretti said. Fioretti also criticized Emanuel for dropping the political bombshell of school closings while out of town for a spring break ski trip to Utah with his wife and kids. “It’s his CPS. If he feels like he wants to be out of town when it happens, it’s a slap in the face to the citizens. He’s not here to answer any questions or stand by his head of the school system,” Fioretti said.

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Boy, 13, among 5 shot on North, South sides
March 22, 2013 > A 13-year-old boy and two others were wounded in shootings on the North and South sides Thursday.

The teen was shot in the 8200 block of South Drexel Avenue in the East Chatham neighborhood around 8:25 p.m., police said. He was taken to Comer Children's Hospital with a wound to the leg, Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said. Police were questioning four people about the shooting.

About 15 minutes later, a 21-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 6700 block of South Bell Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, Alfaro said. The man was standing on the street when someone in a car fired a single shot while passing by, police said.

Earlier, about 4:55 p.m., a man in his 20s was shot in the leg and taken to Swedish Covenant Hospital on the North Side. He was shot in the 4900 block of North Ridgeway Avenue in the Albany Park neighborhood. Two others were wounded about 6 a.m. Friday: one in Jefferson Park and the other in the South Shore neighborhood.

The 47-year-old wounded in the South Shore neighborhood said he had been shot after someone stuck him up in the 6800 block of South Merrill Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood. He drove himself to the University of Chicago Hospitals for treatment, police said.

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