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iconoclastic cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-05-04 09:35 AM
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CPS closing 10 schools---can you guess where they are?
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-skulcuts05.html

City to shutter 10 grade schools

June 5, 2004

BY ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter

The largest school-closing push since Mayor Daley took over the Chicago Public Schools nine years ago was announced Friday, along with plans not to accept freshmen this fall at two troubled high schools with, between them, 250 violent incidents last year.
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Let's see....The remaining schools are overcroweded, underfunded, and yet somehow will still be required to take in the students from these closed schools. Makes sense.
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gatlingforme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 08:38 AM
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1. Bush "No Child Left Behind" is not funded properly, many
Edited on Sun Jun-06-04 08:38 AM by gatlingforme
many many schools in Illinois are effected by Bush and his BS. Federal Mandates are hard to carry out when it does not come with the money needed to implement the mandate.
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