City to apply for $9.24 million grant for high school road project
Council authorized the city manager to apply for a $9.24 million grant to make road improvements near the new Legacy High School.
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Council authorized the city manager to apply for a $9.24 million grant to make road improvements near the new Legacy High School.
Problems with construction permits have slowed progress on an $84 million, three-year project to reach 570 schools and administrative buildings with high-speed Internet, expected to be finished by 2023.
An $84 million plan to boost internet speeds at Chicago Public Schools has stalled again, officials say, because of red tape in securing construction permits from the city.
The goal is "future-proofing" the network as schools' bandwidth use grows, a CPS official said.
On a Thursday night in mid-March 2020, the Vazquez family were eating dinner at Spanky’s Pizza on Telephone Road, at a fundraiser for Ortiz Middle School’s theater department. They were celebrating 13-year-old Isabella’s performance at the school talent show that night where she had sung "When Will My Life Begin?" from Disney’s Tangled. All of a sudden, 15-year-old Daniel announced that he’d just seen on social media that Houston Independent School District had cancelled classes for the next day, Friday, March 13, and that the district had extended its spring break scheduled for Ma...