Saying no to school consolidations is the easy part of draftingnext year's budget by the Chicago Board of Education. Now comes thehard part - plugging a $300 million flow of red ink.
Consolidations of 26 elementary schools wouldn't have saved anickel in the first year but they would have caused disruptions forstudents, teachers and local school councils, an argument that wasn'tlost on the board's Instruction Committee last week.
So, now what? Other than Supt. Ted Kimbrough's plan to closefive schools, which goes before the board's Audit and FinanceCommittee, the board has no other cards on the table to ease theshortfall in the $2.3 billion budget next …
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