Posted on 06/25/2004 10:24:45 AM PDT by MarkeyD
A decade of highly touted reforms have failed to fix the city's worst schools, Mayor Richard Daley said Thursday, and the only solution left is to shut them down and start from scratch.
With that blunt acknowledgment, Daley officially launched the most ambitious effort in a decade to remake the nation's third-largest school system, a campaign that will lean heavily on the private sector for ideas, funding and day-to-day management of more than 100 reorganized schools
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
New Cement?
Would love to read the article, but I can't. Anybody got a password?
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