School Closures

Community groups said they don't want the building because of the stigma attached to closing the school.

The group wants to keep Dyett open as a high school focused on green technology.

DeVry University and Chamberlain College of Nursing are closed Monday because of an unspecified threat.

Canter supporters are hustling to form a council now considered key to swaying the Board of Education.

Officials and volunteers reported no problems for students walking from shuttered Ross Elementary.

CPS is suggesting students from closing schools take their "safe passage" routes to their new school.

King Elementary, one of 49 CPS schools set to close, held its last eighth-grade graduation Monday. 

Parents from several closing schools congregated Monday morning at Lafayette Elementary School.

The well-respected music program has been a major point in the Lafayette Elementary closure debate.

Retired judge praised community's ideas for Canter Middle School, but said CPS did not violate the law.

Ray Principal Tatia Beckwith and Assistant Principal Jeffrey Alstadt reassigned, parents told in letter.

Illinois House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie asks CPS to reconsider closing Canter, alderman mum.

West Garfield Park residents said CPS plans to close Marconi Elementary will put children in danger.

"When he wants our vote, we're there for him. But when we need him, he's not there," one parent said.