More than a dozen Chicago high schools struggle to survive as enrollment plummets, performance falters

Between classes, Theron Averett Jr. walks past rooms stacked with empty desks and an off-limits area where he's heard there's an empty swimming pool. "I've never seen it," he says. He climbs a stairwell where a rainbow-colored mural carries a two-word message for Tilden High School's students:...



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