Posted on 11/19/2018 9:13:19 AM PST by george76
Chicago Public Schools this fall recorded one of the sharpest single-year enrollment declines since the district’s student population began a steady downturn 16 years ago.
The 361,314 students counted on the 20th day of classes this fall represents a reduction of 10,000 students from last school year.
That’s a slightly smaller drop than two years ago, when enrollment plummeted by about 11,000 students from the preceding year. The numbers continue a long-standing trend that began in 2003, when total enrollment stood at 434,000.
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Years of falling enrollment, school expansion and choice patterns have left CPS with tens of thousands of surplus classroom seats, leading officials to consider investing in even more programs to stem losses in South and West side neighborhoods.
Unlike in previous years, there will be less of an impact on the budgets of schools that saw enrollment declines. CPS opted this year to base school budgets on enrollment counts from last school year instead of this year’s 20th day of classes.
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Yet an unexplained boom is occurring in the Chicago funeral business.....
Hmm...how odd?
(SARCASM!!! Not True! I mean, I hope it’s not true.)
Mega BUMP! You hit so many nails on the head I can’t count them all. BUMP!
Don’t worry, the city leaders will just order 10,000 from the cartel caravan.
I mean, heck, the invader migrants don’t know Chicago is a third world slum.
They’ll think they got one over on ol Trump...that is until they get to the hell that is Chicago.
But hey, free unemployment!
Uh, not everyone has a middle class work ethic. Years ago the WSJ ran an editorial that showed if a single mom in NYC had 3 kids and signed up for every welfare program possible, it would take a job with an income of $78,000 a year to provide the same benefits. That’s $39/hour. For a lot of people, that’s like climbing Mt. Everest - impossible.
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