One of the more controversial issues in CPS reared its ugly head again this week.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/cp ... ssion=true

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But think of the politically connected contractors and textbook publishers with their payoffs.

Or the maintenance and food suppliers and their comfortable families.

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You would think after all these years given everything that has been tried this still is something that is a problem. Bureaucracy and corruption is especially sad when the end result is kids lose out.

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This is everywhere but I'm sure you are not surprised. Even in our commonwealth, I think of the difference in cost per student in my SD (~5K a year) and compare that to Philly SD (~17K a year) and wonder where all that money is going because it's not going to give the student a higher quality education but it is going somewhere...

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"North", "West" and "South" sides are code words in the CPS context. I don't exactly know why. There are plenty of economically and racially diverse communities both north and south so saying capital is not being divided evenly geographically tells me nothing.

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And men have lost their reason.

Yep.

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Moreover wasn't busing all those years ago supposed to help get away from where the schools were and to desegregate?

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The schools aren't segregated along strict racial lines anymore but rather between the wealthy and/or connected and everybody else (which just happens to look a lot like racial lines in most cases). The rich got selective enrollment and charter schools. The poor got thrown a bone with Local School Councils.

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With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

True. In many pockets on the southwest side, capital seems to endlessly flow. And plenty of schools in Hyde Park/Kenwood seem to be making out fairly well. But there's even a glaring example of wasteful "capital investment" at my own old school that's getting a brand new athletic field with field turf and a larger track to replace the old crappy ones. Stupid.

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