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Linda Lutton (WBEZ-Chicago Public Media) and Sarah Karp

School actions could top 100
December 06, 2011
By: Elliot Ramos (WBEZ-Chicago Public Media), Linda Lutton (WBEZ-Chicago Public Media) and Sarah Karp

A decade ago this spring, then-CEO Arne Duncan introduced the first Renaissance schools and coined the phrase "turnarounds" to describe a process of firing a school's staff and hiring new people to, hopefully, improve the school.

Since then, the announcement of school actions—turnarounds, closings and reconfigurements—has become an annual occurrence.

Last week, CEO Jean-Claude Brizard continued the tradition, saying that he wants to turnaround 10 schools, close two, phase-out two and officially shutter a few other schools whose phase-outs started years ago.

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