Chicago Communities Wary of Chicago School Closures

CHICAGO — Long after the last school bell scatters children back across this city each day, Tzia Ford is more often than not still inside Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School. </P>Years ago, when her mother walked these same halls, a competitive cheerleading team kept young girls off the street after class was over. For Tzia, a third grader who is on the student council, afternoons at the neighborhood school on Chicago’s West Side are a variety show of ballet and martial arts,

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