Krell appealed to Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office because that’s what the law says you should do if you think you’re getting stonewalled on a FOIA request.
The longer-school-day records weren’t all he requested from CPS. Krell also sought information regarding “selective enrollment tiers.”
This has to do with CPS’s effort to rank every neighborhood by socioeconomic factors in order to guarantee diversity in limited-enrollment high schools like North Side and Payton. The purpose is to make sure kids from low-income neighborhoods get a shot at admission to the high-performing schools.
For the last year or so, many parents have complained that the formula seems arbitrary and unfair. So Krell sent a FOIA seeking “reports and analyses used to formulate the selective enrollment tiers.”