Mayor Rahm Emanuel defends (CPS) Chicago Public Schools borrowing another BILLION DOLLARS for air conditioning, other projects - It's all a joke to them....

It's costing Chicago HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to build and supply schools for all the ILLEGAL BEANER KIDS flocking to & multiplying in the SANCTUARY CITY OF CHICAGO 

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday defended plans to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars for Chicago Public Schools infrastructure as "essential" spending on projects, including his oft-promoted plans to install air conditioning and upgrade technology in classrooms.

"For a long time, we were denying those investments that were necessary both for the working environment and the conditions, but also making sure our kids were having modern science rooms, modern computer rooms and modern areas for music and other types of cultural education," Emanuel said during an appearance at a South Shore elementary school amid the hum of a window-mounted air conditioning unit.

CPS plans to spend $27 million out of what's now a roughly $338 million capital budget to install air conditioning at 61 district-operated and charter schools. City Hall said that would allow Emanuel to make good on a first-term promise to put air conditioning in every classroom. Another $57 million is earmarked for internet bandwidth updates and other technology projects such as new security cameras and metal detectors.

Even as CPS struggles with declining overall enrollment and schools that barely have enough students to fill a fraction of the building's available space, the district plans to spend $173 million of the current capital budget to build new annexes and classrooms at some of Chicago's most overcrowded schools.

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