Last year, aldermen and parents bashed CPS for providing last-minute notice of schools that were to be closed. Ron Huberman, then the CPS chief, promised closing and consolidations would take place the summer before CPS took such actions.
But now, according to the Sun-Times, Huberman's flown the coop without leaving behind a school-closure list. The district, facing declining enrollment on several campuses, once again plans to close schools without much notice.
This seems like a haphazard and needless way for CPS to make enemies. It's pretty easy to forecast trend lines on enrollment numbers months, or years, into the future, , figure out where changes need to be made, and prepare for them in advance. Apparently that's not happening at CPS, though.