Charter schools for dropouts and a “leadership academy” for new principals. An Office of New Americans to support immigrants. Bus rapid-transit lanes, protected bike lanes and designated streets open on weekends only to “non-motorized uses.”
Those are just a few of the ideas packed into the 71-page transition report that will serve as a “scorecard” for Chicagoans to judge their new mayor — and for Rahm Emanuel to hold his department heads’ feet to the fire.
- The city will launch an “Open 311” system, providing an “easy and transparent way” for Chicagoans to submit and monitor their service requests on the Internet. The report also talks about establishing a “new approach” to community policing in as many as five districts without saying what that new approach would be.
We're sure it involves gobs of our money tossed at reverends with little to no accounting or tracking of results. Anyone feel like betting against us?