History was made in Chicago Wednesday in about 90 seconds, but most of the folks who witnessed firsthand the death of a record 50 Chicago Public Schools firsthand didn’t even realize it. Rather than list the names of the doomed elementary schools, the Board of Education took a single group vote on most of the closings that will affect some 27,000 children. The board secretary read out the numbers assigned to each resolution and asked for the vote. But onlookers didn’t even get that, as the board president resorted to parliamentary maneuver to speed the process along. Read More
- LIVE COVERAGE: Live-blog, video of hearing and updated map of closings
- News blog: CPS closing list by race, location
- News Blog: Interactive School Closure Map
- SPECIAL COVERAGE: The Final Bell
- GRAPHIC: Four schools on closing list saved
- MEET THE CHICAGO BOARD OF EDUCATION
- TIMELINE: Chicago school closings
- Pickets, chanting begin long before vote on school closings
- Sunny news for staff, parents at schools taken off closing list
- Four Chicago Public Schools saved from closing list; fate of remaining schools up for vote today
- SPECIAL REPORT: Kohn students would pass many vacant homes on path to Lavizzo
- SPECIAL REPORT: CPS closings create school zone, danger zone
- SPECIAL REPORT: If Marconi closes, students will have to walk past drug dealers on way to Tilton
- List of school programs to be closed
- CTU files civil-rights lawsuits over school closings
- Teachers union vows to change political landscape after schools vote
- Editorial: The battle over, make schools plan work
- Brown: Time for an elected school board
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