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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.

Congressman Danny K. Davis

March 30, 2012

When I read the news that Noble Street Charter Schools profited almost $400,000 from fining its low-income students under the guise of discipline, I could hardly believe it.  When I learned that Noble suspended 51 percent of all its students, 88 percent of its African American students, and 68 percent of its students with disabilities at least once in one year, I became very concerned. 

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