[Diana in Wisconsin]

Conservative parents who are stuck in Chi-Town are moving their kids to Charter or Private Schools, would be my guess.

Or else, the ‘migration’ of undesirables from Chicago continues with Madistan and Mpls./St. Paul Taxpayers picking up the tab?

[jjotto]

Places like Dubuque, Iowa, are destinations for Chicago subsidized housing recipients. Part of a fed plan to promote ‘diversity’.

[george76]

The resident put his kids in a private school : University of Chicago Laboratory Schools , then in DC - Sidwell Friends private school.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan put his kids in the same private Chicago school. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s children go to the same private school.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3341482/posts

[pierrem15]

My experience is that young marrieds look at the cost of sending their kids to good private schools and then move out of the city.

I did have friends who navigated their kids from one public magnet school to another. Both of them wound up at Whitney Young High School, which is reputed to be a very very good high school.

My public high school was quite good: we were taught math and physics by PhD's, some of whom were alumni of the Manhattan Project, and had the missing fingers and radiation scars to prove it. We had Hans Bethe give a lecture once.