CMS is tackling these issues with vigor. But it costs money - money to catch up for years of under funding, money to pay for 3,000 more students each year, and money to move ahead into today's high tech global economy. It's unrealistic to think that CMS can exist on previous year's funding levels. Teachers need to be paid a decent salary. New schools have to be staffed with teachers to teach, janitors to keep the place clean and classrooms supplied with paper, pencils, books and computers.
Preschoolers have to be prepared to enter school.
The pupil assignment issue will work it's way through the courts and we will find out if CMS is declared unitary. Unitary is a legal status. It says that at a point in time public policies that legalized segregation no longer exist. Money isn't the only answer but it sure helps.