Black, low-income communities struggled after CPS school closures 10 years ago

A new analysis shows the mass closings didn’t fix structural inequalities of the city’s public school system as promised.

By Brenda Ruiz
Chicago Schools
In this Jan. 18, 2018, photo, the front door of the now closed Arna Wendell Bontemps Elementary School is boarded up in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Five years after the nation's largest mass closure of public schools, Chicago is forging ahead with plans to shutter four more in one of the city's highest-crime and impoverished areas while school officials are pitching the new closures in Englewood to make way for a new $85 million school they insist will better serve students and reverse low enrollment. Charles Rex Arbogast / AP Photo
Chicago Schools
In this Jan. 18, 2018, photo, the front door of the now closed Arna Wendell Bontemps Elementary School is boarded up in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Five years after the nation's largest mass closure of public schools, Chicago is forging ahead with plans to shutter four more in one of the city's highest-crime and impoverished areas while school officials are pitching the new closures in Englewood to make way for a new $85 million school they insist will better serve students and reverse low enrollment. Charles Rex Arbogast / AP Photo

Black, low-income communities struggled after CPS school closures 10 years ago

A new analysis shows the mass closings didn’t fix structural inequalities of the city’s public school system as promised.

By Brenda Ruiz
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