Dive Summary:

• The Chicago Public Schools' Commission on School Utilization has released a report which claims the district has the power to shutter 80 schools over the next two years.
• The commission maintained the capacity to close 80 schools is based on the amount of students that can be moved to "better-performing schools."
• The report pared down on the number of "underutilized" schools up for closure from 129 to 80 listed in last month's preliminary report.

From the article:

"... 'Their report definitively states that the District does, in fact, have a utilization problem,' CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett said of the commission's findings, according to NBC Chicago, maintaining that the closures are inevitable. 'We did not get here overnight, and we are not going to fix everything overnight. But our children deserve for us to work every day to improve their chances to succeed.'

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis had a different reaction to the commission's findings and called the report 'outrageous,' the Chicago Tribune reports. ..."