Cicago Public Schools is holding its private cleaning contractors accountable for complaints of filthy buildings being lodged by principals and conditions will change, CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett told reporters Monday after speaking to the City Club of Chicago.
“We recognize obviously it has not been as smooth as we would like. I think in a very short time, you’ll see a change,” Byrd-Bennett said after a half-hour speech lauding recent successes at CPS.
She said she was not concerned by a report Monday that amid the complaints of inadequate service, one of those private contractors is set to lay off 470 of its janitors.
“They are going to come up with a system for us that will get the work done,” Byrd-Bennett said of Aramark, which has a $260 million contract over three years to clean all the schools. CPS operates 516 schools.
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, also speaking to reporters at the event, said the privatization isn’t working, and that both contractors, Aramark and SodexoMAGIC, should be fired. SodexoMAGIC has an $80 million contract for overall facilities management in some pilot schools.
“We recognize obviously it has not been as smooth as we would like. I think in a very short time, you’ll see a change,” Byrd-Bennett said after a half-hour speech lauding recent successes at CPS.
She said she was not concerned by a report Monday that amid the complaints of inadequate service, one of those private contractors is set to lay off 470 of its janitors.
“They are going to come up with a system for us that will get the work done,” Byrd-Bennett said of Aramark, which has a $260 million contract over three years to clean all the schools. CPS operates 516 schools.
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, also speaking to reporters at the event, said the privatization isn’t working, and that both contractors, Aramark and SodexoMAGIC, should be fired. SodexoMAGIC has an $80 million contract for overall facilities management in some pilot schools.
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