CPS to distribute free condoms at 24 high schools this fall: a five-year, $20 million federal grant for teen pregnancy. Closed 50 schools but has money for condoms.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Twenty-four Chicago Public high schools will start distributing free condoms to students this fall, under a pilot program tailor-made to curb sexually-transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy.

Chicago’s teen birth rate for girls between the ages of 15 and 19 is 57-per-1,000. That’s nearly twice as high as New York City and 1.5 times the rate nationwide, according to Chicago’s “Action Plan for Healthy Adolescents” distributed to aldermen Wednesday.

Great moments of public education. Just a reminder: Chicago closes 50 public school because for of money and students but has money for condoms !