A report released yesterday by an independent hearing officer has questioned a plan by CPS to merge Courtenay and Stockton schools. The hearing officer summarized two issues regarding closing the Courtenay building and merging the students into Stockton. First, the hearing officer, Judge Charles R Winkler (ret)., noted students will be taking a new...
CPS intends to reopen an annex in Uptown for students of McCutcheon School, The Bulldog has learned. The annex, which residents of Kenmore Avenue say has been closed between four and five years, will be reopened to students in the fall, a CPS employee told The Bulldog. Chicago Public Schools had indicated McCutcheon School...
Chicago Public Schools told a hearing officer Friday that all the Trumbull children have been assigned to new schools, putting into doubt a Bulldog piece, also on Friday, that indicated the CPS plan would lead to overcrowding at McCutcheon School. According to the CPS testimony, the about 146 to 148 special education students at...
New boundaries are likely to lead to overcrowding at McCutcheon. New boundaries will not significantly impact underutilization at McPherson Overcrowding will force some students to attend Stockton/ Courtenay, leading to dangerous journeys to school. Two schools will be receiving Trumbull students, but will not receive assistance as they are not ‘receiving’ schools. The...
Raise Your Hand issued a report Wednesday that is critical of 40 of the 54 school closings planned by the Chicago Public Schools. The group notes, that the omission of 14 schools does not indicate the group supports closing those schools, but rather that the scope of closings is so large that the volunteer...
The city and the Metropolitan Sanitary District have announced a plan to build an underground tunnel in the Albany Park neighborhood that would, they say, dramatically reduce the potential for flooding. The Chicago River North Branch, which flows through Albany Park, overflowed last week after a storm dropped nearly five inches of water on...
Lincoln Square Insider reports the former firehouse located at Eastwood and Seeley will be turned into a single family home. The building had been used by the city for offices. It was considered uneconomic to continue to use the building due to required maintenance and repair. The building joins a frame building on...
WBEZ reports a $50 million bus rapid transit service will serve Ashland from Cortland Ave south for a distance of about 5.3 miles. The Chicago Transit Authority and Chicago Department of Transportation are studying options of extending the line as far north as Irving Park Road the story says. The CTA said Ashland route...
Here we stand God. And we want some answers. In your Holy Name we pray. Amen. Good Morning. Midnight, came and went and a week passed that needed to be put down, stomped out, separated and strewn all over never to occur again so we could be released from our misery. Then as I...
The approximately 25 neighbors and business owners that attended a public meeting at the Revere Park Fieldhouse on Tuesday evening objected to the proposed residential development at 4131 North Rockwell (Rockwell between Berteau and Belle Plaine) but for different reasons. Most of the discussion came from neighbors immediately adjacent to the proposed development. The...
