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Regardless of having put 5 of her youngsters in Chicago Public Faculties, Blaire Flowers stated as soon as her eldest daughter graduates highschool, she could must make the tough choice of transferring her youngsters to a faculty district within the suburbs.
“It’s not well worth the combat,” Flowers stated. “My son is lacking out on an excessive amount of. You need me to sit down right here and wait whereas (lecturers) scream and holler about wanting more cash, and I’m nonetheless not getting the essential providers my son ought to be getting from CPS.”
Following months of turmoil that has consumed the district, some dad and mom say they’ve had sufficient of the fixed battling between the three teams main the general public college system. With district CEO Pedro Martinez’s firing in December, upheaval on the college board, and a four-year Chicago Lecturers Union contract in its ninth month of negotiations, some dad and mom say their college students have turn into an afterthought.
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