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School closings

As CPS prepares to close a record number of schools, the fate of students and communities is in question.

Alan Gottlieb

September 08, 2005

Some months ago, in my role as The Piton Foundation's education program officer, I read "All Together Now—Creating Middle-class Schools Through Public School Choice," by Richard Kahlenberg. The book's thesis—that economically integrated schools have significantly greater success educating low-income children than do high-poverty schools—made immediate intuitive sense.

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