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The district wants to shut down 53 elementary schools—11 percent of all district-run grammar schools—and one high school. Because some of the proposed closings involve complicated relocations, in which a receiving school moves into a closed school building, an additional 12 schools will see their buildings shuttered.

Chicago parents pleaded with the school district Tuesday to re-think its plan.

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

A group of activists boarded a bus to Washington, D.C. Sunday to join protestors from other cities.

CPS says 137 of its schools are sitting half-empty. WBEZ went to see what it looks and feels like inside some of the district’s 'underutilized' buildings.

WBEZ plotted annual school closings and schools "turned around" since the 2001-02 school year when CPS began shuttering schools as a reform strategy.