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School watchers may have noticed something missing from the list of school actions proposed by CPS officials this year: No schools were selected for the turnaround program, in which the district fires virtually the entire staff at a school and replaces them with new teachers and administrators.

As he does almost every year, Jack Wuest of the Alternative Schools Network brought out lawmakers, state officials and advocates to rev them up to focus more resources on the often-invisible young people he champions.

Another North Side elementary schools is poised to extend into a high school. On the agenda for the October School Board meeting is a proposal to expand Audubon Elementary School in Roscoe Village so that it will now include a high school. The Audubon High School follows behind Alcott High School for the Humanities and Ogden International High School, both of which opened in fall 2009. Alcott Elementary and High School are in Lincoln Park and Ogden Elementary is on the Gold Coast, although the high school is located in West Town.