Chicago to Close Three Failing Elementary Schools
Three troubled elementary schools in Chicago will be closed this coming fall, the city's school board has announced. The step is the most dramatic action that district officials have taken against schools they see as failing since Mayor Richard M. Daley was given control of the city's schools in 1995.
Two of the schools are expected to reopen in the fall of 2003, after extensive changes have been made, and the third will remain closed indefinitely...
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