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School Closings in Chicago: Staff and Student Experiences and Academic Outcomes
Study of Chicago's 2013 closure of nearly 50 schools. Staff and students described merger planning as inadequate and chaotic; test scores fell for students from both closed and receiving schools, with math effects lasting four years.
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- Date
- May 2018
- Type
- research
- Government
- Other states
- Topic
- Closures elsewhere
- Published by
- UChicago Consortium on School Research
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