NEWS: 93% OF CPS STUDENTS IN BETTER SCHOOLS

Ninety-three percent of the displaced kids ended up in schools better than the ones that closed, but 25 percent ended up at schools that were not better than where they had been assigned.

That’s because many families chose schools based on proximity to home rather than the district’s school performance ratings, co-author Marisa de la Torre said, and CPS has limited top-tier schools in the predominantly poor, black neighborhoods where the bulk of the schools were closed.

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