Tom, I've been curious about King Lab School as well. Do you know if it was in any of the discussion in
SAP 1 or 2? Or at a school board meeting? It seems logical to me that students in the fifth ward could get to King without incurring the expense of busing students to Lincolnwood. For decades King Lab was used to maintain the 60% guidel…
Tom, I've been curious about King Lab School as well. Do you know if it was in any of the discussion in
SAP 1 or 2? Or at a school board meeting? It seems logical to me that students in the fifth ward could get to King without incurring the expense of busing students to Lincolnwood. For decades King Lab was used to maintain the 60% guideline, that no school would have more than 60% of any race. Since that is no longer a prerogative, it only make sense to use King as a neighborhood school.
Tom, I've been curious about King Lab School as well. Do you know if it was in any of the discussion in
SAP 1 or 2? Or at a school board meeting? It seems logical to me that students in the fifth ward could get to King without incurring the expense of busing students to Lincolnwood. For decades King Lab was used to maintain the 60% guideline, that no school would have more than 60% of any race. Since that is no longer a prerogative, it only make sense to use King as a neighborhood school.
Somewhere in the comments above there is a section on this — my impression is that the SAP committee didn’t want to touch it, but who knows!