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Ultimately, Chicago’s future rests with its schools.
Good public schools, more than anything, will keep young families from fleeing the city for the suburbs. Good public schools are vital to thriving neighborhoods across the city, and especially in communities of color left devastated by decades of disinvestment. Good public schools lead to a well-educated workforce that keeps and lures businesses.
Good public schools are Chicago’s foundation, as they are for every successful big city. Without that foundation, Chicago is going nowhere.
So Mayor Lori Lightfoot must fight, publicly and hard, against a bad proposal to create an ungainly, unmanageable 21-member fully elected school board that would upend how Chicago’s public schools are run and not for the better.
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