Chicago schools getting more Safe Passage workers

CHICAGO (AP) — Another 15,000 students at 27 more Chicago public schools will be seeing Safe Passage workers in their neon vests on their way to and from school.

The Chicago Public Schools said the Board of Education on Wednesday approved the expansion of the Safe Passage program thanks to an influx of $10 million that Gov. Pat Quinn announced last month the city would be getting from the state.