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All kindergarteners in Chicago will go to school for the whole day, rather than the state-mandated half-day, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Monday.

This American Life aired an up-close look at gun violence affecting Chicago's Harper High School. In this story, WBEZ education reporter Linda Lutton asks kids: How do you get a gun? 

Chicago Public Schools officials plan to shut down two charter schools over the next few years.

From the perspective of a very anxious (and for a long time, very unemployed) college graduate.

CPS officials are refusing to say whether kids gunned down in the city are public school students.

The release of the school names has started another round of debates as the potential closures were more acute in neighborhoods already grappling with economic and violent crime issues, specifically the Austin, Humboldt Park, South Shore, Englewood, West Englewood and North Lawndale communities.

Chicago Public Schools officials say they will not hand over closed buildings to charters or make them into new schools. Instead, they want to do something they’ve never tried before: sell the schools on a large scale. But schools aren’t exactly prime real estate.