Although many communities have been promised repairs and improvements for years, Mayor Daley has the power to drive major improvements quickly. Much of the money Chicago schools are using for capital projects are going for charter schools and the expanding military academies the mayor promotes. Above, for example, the former Grant Elementary School, which was in need of repairs for more than a decade, is now being renovated at a cost in excess of $10 million. But it is now longer Grant Elementary. The building now houses two “military high schools”. Substance photo by George N. Schmidt
