Thursday, March 7, 2013

Judgment day Thursday on 27 school closings

Officials have said the closings are necessary for the system to put one month worth of operating expenses -- about $17 million -- in a reserve fund. former state Superintendent Ed Richardson, who is leading the state takeover of Birmingham schools

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In December, however, CPS officials offered their own analysis of average class size in a document submitted to the school closing commission picked by Byrd-Bennett to advise her. Those numbers showed that fewer than 10 percent of elementary schools

Despite the claims by some Chicago education and political leaders that mass school closings will boost student learning outcomes, closing schools usually does little to raise so-called "student achievement" levels and in

This morning's snow is leading to school closings, including some areas where snow has yet to start falling. Closed schools include: In Adams County: Bermudian Springs, Fairfield, Gettysburg, HACC, Littlestown and Upper Adams. In Cumberland County:

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