A "mess" - Why?
Chicago to close 54 schools to address a $1B deficit. The school district said it has seats for more than 500,000 students but has only about 403,000.
-NBC Chicago, 03/22/13
The closings represent about 8 percent of the 681 public schools in Chicago, the third largest school district in the country.
-NYT, 3/21/13
Chicago schools scheduled to close are in neighborhoods that have seen a decline in population in recent years - raising taxes to keep these schools open doesn't appear to be an option.
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