CPS closings vote shows it’s time for an elected school board

Updated: 2013-05-23 06:38:41

Mark Brown: Before Wednesday, I’d never thought it would make much sense for Chicago to switch to an elected school board, given the problems we already face electing good people to the offices we now fill. Then I changed my mind while watching Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s six appointees to the Board of Education vote unanimously to close 50 schools next year despite thoughtful and impassioned pleas from community members begging them to reconsider.

• Census: Chicago is slowest growing major city in U.S.

  Updated: 2013-05-23 06:40:25

  Chicago gained nearly 10,000 people from July 2011 to July 2012, but was the slowest-growing major city in the country according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday. It was the second year in a row that population grew here, but the increase so far …Read More

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