CPS panel: Up to 80 schools could close
2013 gallery (25 photos). The last of three community meetings to hear and ask questions about the proposed Birmingham school closings will be held tonight at Jackson-Olin High School. The proposal...
View ArticleHow school closings affect children
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – There was a lot of disappointment and passion from parents, teachers and education advocates in attendance at the School Reform Commission's meeting on Thursday (see related...
View ArticleDoes Closing Underperforming Schools Help or Hurt Students?
Nine out of 10 Chicago Public School students potentially impacted by school closings are African-American because their neighborhoods suffered population losses, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday. One...
View ArticlePhilly coming to grips with mass school closings
(There were more schools on the list but activists got about 10 removed). To understand what is at stake for affected students and educators in Philadelphia — and in other cities where closing schools...
View ArticleRational Decisions and Heartbreak on School Closings
The panel's recommendation — though filled with caveats — provides the mayor and Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett with support as they prepare to file a final list of school closings...
View ArticleA Study In Contrasts For CPS School Closings In Washington Heights …
The closing of more than 50 Chicago public schools will affect nearly 30000 students–the largest single-year school closing in U.S. history. Chicago will close 54 schools and 61 school buildings by the...
View ArticleCPS students march against school closing plan
Stirgus, 17, was among about 40 CPS students who marched with Chicago Students Organizing to Save Our Schools. In a letter to Mayor Rahm Emanuel written on an oversized piece of paper, the group...
View ArticleCPS students take school-closing protest to City Hall
Ken Dunkin (D-Chicago) said poorly managed vacant school buildings welcome crime to surrounding neighborhoods before calling for a moratorium on closures for the 2013-14 school year. Bronzeville...
View ArticleChicago school closings provoke confusion, anger among parents
Chicago Public School kids are heading into Spring Break this week, but it will be hard for some students and parents to relax and knowing their neighborhood school is slated to close at the end of the...
View ArticleBarricades erected before mass protest against Chicago school closings
Several years ago, I was honored to be a science fair judge at the South Side's Ralph J. Bunche Elementary School. What impressed me were displays of electronic experiments and phenomena caused by...
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