Chicago Announces 15 New High Schools While Loosing 41,000 School Children

The Chicago Sun-Times reports on Chicago opening 15 new high schools.Let's quote a CBS TV Chicago report on Chicago's amazing declining school age population from January of 2008:

Half-empty schools are ‘unacceptable’ because they don't serve their students or the communities they're supposed to anchor, Mayor Richard M. Daley said Thursday, setting the stage for the biggest wave of school closings in decades.

Officials contend 147 of 417 neighborhood elementary schools are from half to more than two-thirds empty because enrollment has declined by 41,000 students in the last seven years. A tentative CPS plan calls for up to 50 under-used schools to close, consolidate with other schools or phase out over the next five years.

So, if you lost 41,000 school aged kids would you be building 15 new schools? Unless you were from Barack Obama's corrupt town.