Official: Chicago concedes vast swaths of territory to gangs

Background: The Chicago Public School system has closed a number of schools.



The problem: Children having to walk farther to school through gang territory.



Doing "something" about the gangs is not an option. Gang territory is just a hazardous geographical feature.



CPS releases ‘Safe Passage’ routes in school consolidation program

Chicago Sun Times

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Chicago Public Schools officials on Friday publicly released the routes they say will ensure the safety of thousands of kids walking unfamiliar sidewalks to their newly assigned schools when classes begin in less than three weeks. Six hundred newly hired safety workers in yellow vests will be posted along the routes from the areas around closing schools to the welcoming schools. “As a teacher and as a principal I know that a child shouldn’t be sitting in my classroom or my school worried about whether or not they’re going to get to and from school safely. They should be worried about whether they’re going to pass my class,” CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett told the Sun-Times. ...

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