EAST SIDE — A new school in East Side will help with overcrowding in the area, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said.
Emanuel, who helped open the school at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, said about 1,200 students will attend Southeast Area Elementary School, 3930 E. 105th St. Young children surrounded him, playing on a playground and then helping the mayor cut the red ribbon to open the school. Classes will start Sept. 6.
"The other schools will not have the overcrowding where kids will be learning in hallways," Emanuel said. "They will now be able to return to the classroom."
Mayor Emanuel says new school on Far South Side will help with overcrowding problems in area schools. pic.twitter.com/jpJlCSIuPw
— Kelly Bauer (@BauerJournalism) September 2, 2016
The school has three computer labs, three science labs, a gym and stage, said Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza (10th), whose ward includes the school.
Students on the South Side — like those who will go to Southeast Area Elementary — should have the same resources as students from the North Side, Garza said, and every school should look like Southeast Area Elementary School.
"We need to make sure that we make the schools equal. Everything that they get on the North Side, we deserve it down here in the 10th Ward, too," Garza said. "Why doesn't every school in the whole district look like this?"
Garza says schools on South Side deserve what schools on North Side have. pic.twitter.com/ObCgyXhat9
— Kelly Bauer (@BauerJournalism) September 2, 2016
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