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West Side residents fight to keep neighborhood schools open

Last week, hundreds of West Side residents packed Friendship Baptist Church to tell Chicago Public Schools officials to leave the West Side alone when considering school closings.

The residents spoke out at the first of two community meetings on school closings in the Austin-North Lawndale Network. More than a dozen Austin schools could be on the school closing list according to CPS data.

Read the entire story at our sister publication AustinTalks.org.

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