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@JMOChicago who knows. Do they have a policy on this? —
53 min 49 sec ago
@JMOChicago even n'hood scls w/ waitlists and open seats don't have to take kids. —
1 hour 3 min ago
"At capacity" means waitlist even tho 300 empty seats for some scls. @ChiPubSchools —
1 hour 5 min ago
@DebPickett#cpsclosings is not a new ed policy that #Rahm came up with, been going on for yrs & many research has shown rarely effective. —
1 hour 5 min ago
On another note just found out any scl with a waitlist does not have to accept students from closing scls. @JMOChicago —
1 hour 6 min ago
@DebPickett we need educational equity not a few good scls, which seems to be approach of this admin. —
1 hour 7 min ago
@DebPickett but agree, convo needs to change abt quality educ for all. Ib and stem are not educ visions. —
1 hour 8 min ago
@DebPickett you have visited? some great things happening at duprey, vonh, delano, ryerson, yale, dewey, lafayette, goodlow, morgan,etc. —
1 hour 10 min ago
@DebPickett no one should judge a scl until visiting it. This board split up clsing scls and didn't visit receiving scls. Completed 1/2 work —
1 hour 12 min ago
@DebPickett interesting piece and agree w/ some of it but there actually are a bunch of good scls that were just closed. —
1 hour 15 min ago