The day after the Chicago School Board voted to close dozens of public schools, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS chief Barbara Bennett-Byrd are focused on trying to look ahead.
The pair met with local media Thursday morning at Brennaman Elementary School on the North Side, a facility that will be acting as a welcoming school for one of the 49 elementary schools and one high school that will be shut down.
Byrd-Bennett says the students are registering at their new schools immediately, and hopes that it will have a better sense of where the students will be by May 31.
The fight against the school closings isn’t completely over, however. Also on Thursday, a four-day hearing was scheduled for July to consider a case filed by the Chicago Teacher’s Union on behalf of parents in opposition to the closings.
Byrd-Bennett says she understands the high level of emotions involved with the decision to close the schools, but doesn’t take it personally.
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