Report follows student placement after 2013 school closings

In the aftermath of the historic Chicago Public School closings, the big question has always been: Have the displaced students ended up in better schools? Well, now we have a way to answer some of that question. But here’s the headline: About 90 percent of those students did end up at higher performing schools.

That’s according to a report released today from the University of Chicago’s Consortium on Chicago School Research...