Mobile classrooms at Channing Elementary School in Elgin. November 12, 2012 | Michael Smart~Sun-Times Media
Sixth-grade student Cristobal Nambo prepares to ask a question February 9, 2012 during a class in a mobile classroom at Channing Elementary School in Elgin. February 9, 2012 | Sun-Times Media~File Photo
Music teacher Elizabeth Nysteadt watches as third-graders Tanjae Haugabook (from left), Justina Sanavongxay and Gali DePaz return to their mobile classroom after a bathroom break at Coleman Elementary in Elgin, Il. on Wednesday, Oct. 08, 2008. "I'm lucky to have a classroom," Ms. Nysteadt says of her mobile assignment. October 8, 2008 | Sun-Times Media~File Photo
Mobile classrooms at Channing Elementary School in Elgin. November 12, 2012 | Michael Smart~Sun-Times Media
ELGIN — School District U46 has paid $16,791,643.79 in legal fees to defend itself in a nearly eight-year-old racial discrimination lawsuit against district. And that number will go up as U46 waits for the plaintiffs in the trial to submit their closing arguments as a …
