The board’s vote could change the original plan, which was to save all seven Acero schools slated for closure next year.
Secret service agents were mistakenly identified as ICE officers when attempting to enter an elementary school, creating a potentially stressful environment for education majors stationed in schools.
The Acero charter network announced last year plans to shutter Cruz K-12 as well as Casas, Cisneros, Fuentes, Paz, Santiago and Tamayo elementary schools due to declining enrollment, increasing personnel and facilities maintenance costs.
“The word bankruptcy has been hanging over Chicago like a storm cloud about to burst,” wrote American Enterprise Institute fellow Andrew G. Biggs, a federal overseer of Puerto Rico’s insolvency reorganization, in a recent New York Times commentary. Last year, Chicago’s official pension actuary issued a similar warning.
The school district is grappling with tighter budgets and is locked in a labor dispute that advocates worry could lead to worse services and care for children with the highest needs.
When asked to pick three of Chicago's top problems, around two-thirds of respondents in a new poll said crime was the main concern.
As many as seven Chicago-area schools had announced delays, closures or e-learning Tuesday due as a cold weather advisory continues.