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The recent sales of four vacant schools to private school operators could stir more competition for the public school system as school choice initiatives gain support in the state and nation.
Poor students continue to bear the brunt of Chicago’s newly approved plans to shut down more public schools.
As Chicago Public Schools prepares to shut down more schools, it faces continued resistance from people like Irene Robinson, whose community was fractured by 2013’s mass closures.
About a third of students leaving segregated, low-income Chicago schools end up back in majority black and poor suburban schools, our analysis shows.
Many families fleeing the poorest pockets of the city are ending up in cash-strapped school systems in the suburbs and northwest Indiana.
The former educator could bring a different perspective to pressing issues of privatization, special education funding and school closings.
An ideological agenda for more “school choice” seems to be driving the district’s actions rather than what’s needed on the ground.
Deep cuts to higher education are pushing black, Latino and other first-generation college hopefuls out of a path to upward economic mobility, a new report shows.
The massive reshuffling of black students in Englewood and South Loop wouldn’t fly in a wealthier school district.
Developers buying shuttered Chicago schools face stiff competition for tax credits that make their repurposing plans viable.