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Chicago school officials have announced plans to place 21 schools on remediation because of declining test scores.

The 14 elementary and seven high schools in the 416,000-student district will each be assigned a support team that will help them craft a school-improvement plan, a district spokesman said. All of the schools had been on the state's academic watch list. (See Education Week, Jan. 31, 1996.)

Paul Vallas, the district's chief executive officer, has also recommended that two local school councils be declared nonfunctional and that new elections to...