On Thursday, Chicago Public Schools announced that they will be making closures to decrease their budget deficit.
Fifty-four programs and sixty-one school buildings will be shut down, after this school year.
The move will affect thirty thousand children, and result in over a thousand teachers and staff being fired.
CPS faces a deficit of more than one billion dollars, this summer, while their planned closures will save them one hundred and thirty-seven million, over the next ten years.
This is the same district that agreed to increase teacher's raises, in September, in order to end a strike.

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