Chicago Public Schools are spending millions more every year to educate (?) fewer children

Some of new CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard decisions envisioned include:
•Closing schools, including charters, that aren't working or are under enrolled.

•Restructuring contracts with teachers, janitors, bus drivers and other pacts that have become burdensome.

•Consolidating jobs and departments within the central office.
•Laying off staff.

•Raising taxes when necessary.•Creating a school system where the best-performing, not the longest-serving, principals and teachers earn the most money.
The teacher's union says they have the answer and here it is............

 Chicago Public Schools, after years of reform efforts have done little to increase the number of high school students meeting benchmarks for college.
  Results released Thursday that show flat or declining high school test scores and a widening achievement gap. The average ACT composite score for district juniors was 17.4 in 2011. Only 7.9 percent of test-takers in 2011 met college readiness benchmarks on the ACT. That statistic went up 0.7 percentage points from the year before. From four years ago, it crept up by a single percentage point.