Windy City gets a new Super
Detroit School Superintendent Arthur Jefferson was a leading candidate for the vacant top job in the Chicago school system. He turned it down. No wonder. The nation's third largest school system, with 458,000 students, is racked by money problems. It will close ten schools this month, and a third of the extracurricular programs have been canceled. Unless fur ther budget cuts are made, the system faces a projected $46 million deficit. Convinced that no outsider could cope with Chicago politics, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, along with the five black members of the city's eleven-member school board,...
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