Report examines effects of closing low-performing Chicago schools
Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 10:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org)—The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research has released a full version of the report, "Turning around Low-Performing Schools in Chicago," which shows that in about three-fourths of the cases, shuttered buildings were used for new schools within a few years of the closing. Most of those new schools were designated as magnet or charter schools.