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As Board prepares to vote on the school closings list, CPS restricts media access saying it would be disruptive to students.

Classroom sizes for those in kindergarten, first and second grades are higher than the limit set by CPS.

Chicago Public Schools will hold hearings just about every night this week on a slate of schools the district wants to close or phase out. School closings are controversial every year. And this year has been no different--but there have been some new twists to the controversy.

Chicago Public Schools is holding a series of community meetings to hear public input on proposed closings, consolidations and turnarounds.

Chicago Public Schools unveiled a list of so-called school actions this week, including 10 school turnarounds, replacing the entire staff with new faces.Some schools will be closed outright and others will be what CPS calls "phased out," which means no new students will be accepted; as current stude

Seventeen Chicago Public Schools are undergoing a special kind of transformation known as a turnaround. The turnaround program is an effort to fix schools that have chronically low performance levels and show insufficient improvement through other means.