Are School Closings Discriminatory?
Chicago returned to the center of the national debate over the future of public education this week as the city’s school board voted to shut down 50 schools.
Kayla Webley
Kayla Webley is a staff writer at TIME, which she joined as a writer-reporter in 2010. She covers education for the magazine and for Time.com and also writes about social issues such as religion and social networking. She graduated from the University of Washington and the Medill Graduate School of Journalism at Northwestern University and interned at TIME Asia's headquarters in Hong Kong in 2009.
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