Mendoza was a 25-year veteran of the Chicago public schools, widely acknowledged as an excellent teacher.
Now the chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, Paul Vallas, has gone too.
The cut represents roughly 10% of all elementary school facilities in Chicago Public Schools, the country's third-largest school district.
He recalled that as the former chief of Chicago Public Schools, he oversaw a system in a city where a student was killed by gun violence every two weeks.
Prior to his appointment as secretary of education, Duncan served as the chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools, a position to which he was appointed by Mayor Richard M.
The closures "will consolidate underutilized schools and programs to provide students with the quality, 21st century education they need to succeed in the classroom, " Chicago Public Schools said in a statement Wednesday.
Middle-class parents still move out of the city into the suburbs when their children reach school-age because they mistrust Chicago's public schools.
Bryn Austin from Harvard's School of Public Health mapped all the schools in Chicago--kindergartens through high schools, public and private--and also mapped where the fast-food restaurants are located in the city.
When Mayor Richard Daley seized control of the failing public schools in Chicago, the city's parochial schools were taken as a model of how they should be restructured.
Chicago had 700 iPads in 23 public schools during the past school year.
At a recent public forum hosted by Chicago's Office of New Schools, most in the audience supported the proposed school.
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