Plan identifies 26 school buildings that will close in the next decade

The city school system announced Tuesday the closure of 26 school buildings, including Northwestern High School, in the next decade, as part of a large-scale plan to overhaul its dilapidated infrastructure. The highly anticipated "10-year plan" would also see 136 school buildings replaced or renovated. It also calls for reducing the number of school buildings in the district from 163 to 137 to right-size the district's facilities to its population and increase its utilization rate.

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