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Two years ago, we were a young family that was looking forward to raising our children in the city before my wife was offered a better job in Arizona. We hope to return to Chicago and thus remain invested in its well-being. Thank you to the Tribune for reimagining Burnham’s Plan of Chicago.
Problems: High unemployment, high rates of violent crime, crowded and underperforming schools, high dropout rates, poor job prospects.
Proposal: Train the unemployed as teachers or teaching assistants; use these new educators to reduce class sizes and dropouts; reopen closed schools, if possible; and make education Chicago’s new blue-collar, middle-class entry job with incentives for educators who live in the city.
— Andrew Obler, Tucson, Ariz.
