With overcrowd classrooms and crumb...

With overcrowd classrooms and crumbling makes Chicago schools were failing the city's kids. An ambitious seven-year capital improvement program initiated by the agency of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) aims to take the third-largest instruct system in the United States from detention to the head of the class.

After an assessment of its 557 elementary trains in 1996, CPS determined that more than 100 recent school buildings and additions were required immediately to confront the needs of current and subsequent time students. In addition, 505 of the existing indoctrinates needed extensive renovations,