Accessibility in Chicago Public Schools

When Janice Jackson took to the radio with WBEZ, she discussed the upcoming expenditures on accessibility - about $10.5 million slated in the upcoming CPS budget.

Chalkbeat covered the lack of accessibility in CPS schools.

The expenditure does not go far enough, as one parent writes to the Chicago Tribune. 

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CPS disabilities access is shameful
​Listening to Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson on WBEZ’s “The Morning Shift” was heartbreaking. Advocates for people with disabilities were stunned when Jackson proudly proclaimed that she is working hard to get children with disabilities access to first floors in schools. Does she realize we aren’t in the 1919 school year, but the 2019 school year? It’s unacceptable that children with disabilities do not have access to entire schools.
Luckily for Jackson, she isn’t physically disabled. But if she were, how would she feel if, every day, she couldn’t leave the first floor at CPS headquarters?
What about educators with disabilities? They can teach only on the first floor? Vendors with disabilities have to be turned away? Parents with disabilities? They can’t see their child perform in a second-floor auditorium?
Jackson goes on and on about equity in CPS. But she appears to be only interested in race equity. Equity is also accessibility, no matter your race.
Every other government agency from the CTA to City Hall to the post office is accessible. It’s unacceptable that schools aren’t.
— Nancy Curran, Chicago