CHICAGO (CBS) – A group of about 50 teachers, parents and students from the Chicago Public Schools boarded a bus to Springfield Tuesday morning, to make their voices heard about school closings. CBS 2's Susanna Song reports the group plans to urgeMayor Rahm Emanuel seemed unfazed Thursday by a newspaper report showing nine out of ten students attending the Chicago public schools targeted for closure are African Americans.From Birmingham City Schools closing meetings to students learning about the dangers of tobacco, here's a quick look at stories that we're following on Wednesday morning, March 20, 2013. On Wednesday evening, Birmingham City School Officials will meetCritics of the latest round of school closings mandated in January under the Gray/Henderson administration, doubt if they will result in improvements. In 2008, then-Mayor Adrian Fenty and Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee closed dozens of schools.The head of Chicago Public Schools Barbara Byrd-Bennett sat down with WGN's Randi Belisomo as a deadline to announce school closings approaches. That announcement must be made by the end of the month.
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