The latest cost-cutting deal at CPS is off to a rocky start.
by Ben Joravsky
It's been an up-and-down couple of weeks for Mayor Emanuel as he attempts to win back some of the black voters he alienated with closings, cuts, and firings in his first three years in office. On the one hand, he announced that he was taking back his much-criticized decision to put President Obama's name on the selective enrollment school he's building on the north side—though he overlooked the fact that it wasn't so much the name of the school as its Gold Coast location that irritated voters.…[ Read more ]