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The Big Sort: How Chicago’s school choice system is tracking kids into different high schools based on achievement

This spring, at grammar schools all across Chicago, thousands of eighth graders donned caps and gowns and walked across auditorium stages to receive their elementary school diplomas. This fall, the graduates from each of those schools will scatter—to more than 130 different Chicago public high schools, and counting. This story also appeared in WBEZ Chicago […]