Emanuel on ‘consolidating’ schools: ‘We know we have to do it’

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Chicago Public Schools have 600,000 seats and only 400,000 kids, underscoring the need to “consolidate” under-utilized schools that should been closed over the last decade, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday.

When you lose 7% of your population in ten years: it's bound to create "excess" seats.