National education officials are investigating how Chicago Public Schools has handled closing schools in recent years. A
spokesman for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed Tuesday that
CPS is one of six urban school districts being investigated by the
department’s Office of Civil Rights. ...More HERE
Meanwhile, Chicago schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett is so concerned about the transfer of
students in the upcoming school closing process she’s leaning on a
retired Marine colonel who once quietly sorted out a prisoner exchange
in the wake of war in Kosovo to figure it out. ...More HERE
