CPS' capital budget, which identifies construction and building maintenance projects, grew 12.4% from the current year
State Rep. Theresa Mah, who spearheaded the proposal in the Legislature, said Tuesday she's"glad that they're holding up their end of the commitment."
CPS spokeswoman Mary Fergus said the allocation would allow the district to"explore building a new neighborhood high school" in the area, but noted the district is"early in the engagement process." NTA remained an elementary school. As a high school, it mainly would have served the rapidly growing South Loop, as well as Bridgeport and Chinatown. Two years later, the Illinois General Assembly set aside $50 million in a new capital budget for a new high school to be built on the Near South Side, to the delight of Chinatown residents.
"CPS and the city - there's plenty of will there. The reality of it - this needle that has to be threaded - is on the execution. There's not a whole lot of land and available space to sort of build new or convert. It's a very complex challenge," she said in an interview at the time. Almost half the capital budget, $365.2 million, is going toward facilities repairs, but that'll only make a dent in what CPS officials identified as more than $3 billion worth of"critical facility need" district-wide. The school system's 522 campuses are an average of 82-plus years old.
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