on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 10:37am The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and a group of Chicago parents are asking a circuit court to block the school board from shutting down ten of the city’s schools. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, the plaintiffs claim that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) violated its own guidelines by disregarding the recommendations of independent hearing officers who objected to the closures. The state of Illinois “requires the school board to establish guidelines for the closing of schools,” said CTU attorney Robert Bloch. “When it developed a proposed plan for closing schools, i...