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• CPS Commission Finds that Chicago Can Close 80 Schools in One Year
• City Councilman Loses Federal Appeal on School Drug Searches
• U.S. probes racial disparities in Seattle school discipline
• Unusual $50 million gift for writing at Michigan
• Can a School Project Make a Difference In a Community?

CPS Commission Finds that Chicago Can Close 80 Schools in One Year Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:26 AM PST According to an article from the Chicago Tribune, a report issued by the Commission on School Utilization, tasked by Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett to analyze school closures, concluded that the district could safely close or overhaul as many as 80 schools this year alone. Although CPS has never closed more than a dozen schools in a single year, the report notes that closing this many schools is logistically possible and provides Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration and CPS with support in preparing the final list of schools slated for closure and the end of this month.

City Councilman Loses Federal Appeal on School Drug Searches Posted: 07 Mar 2013 10:07 AM PST A city councilman and his wife lost a federal appeals court ruling against their son's school district regarding a drug dog search at their son's high school in Springfield, Mo. Doug Burlison filed a lawsuit against Springfield Public Schools and the county sheriff after an April 2010 incident in which drug dogs from the Greene County Sheriff's Department conducted a random search of a science classroom in Central High School.

U.S. probes racial disparities in Seattle school discipline Posted: 07 Mar 2013 04:25 AM PST SEATTLE (Reuters) - The Education Department is investigating whether Seattle's public school district discriminates against black students by subjecting them to tougher and more frequent discipline than white students, agency and district officials said. The inquiry, launched in May 2012, is focusing in part on the district's own statistics showing that African-American high school students are suspended or expelled more than three times as often as other students, school officials said on Wednesday. ...

Unusual $50 million gift for writing at Michigan Posted: 06 Mar 2013 09:02 PM PST ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The wife of billionaire real estate mogul Sam Zell is giving $50 million to support the University of Michigan's acclaimed graduate writing program. The donation, to be announced Thursday, is believed to be by far the largest ever gift to such a program, and comes at a time when most major gifts to higher education are supporting science, not the humanities.

Can a School Project Make a Difference In a Community? Posted: 06 Mar 2013 05:27 PM PST The Industrial Revolution isn't exactly the sexiest of topics for high school students.

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