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Chicago's Safe Passage program costs a lot, but it may provide students safer routes to school

  • Written by F. Chris Curran, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
A safety guard watches as parents walk with their children along a safe passage route on the first day of school in Chicago in 2013.Spencer Green/AP

While walking to school last month, a 15-year-old Chicago girl was confronted by two masked men in a van with tinted windows in an attempted kidnapping. Fortunately, the girl escaped and ran to a...

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