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  3. Of the 658 schools in Chicago, only 126 are charter schools—publicly funded but independently run and largely free of union rule

Of the 658 schools in Chicago, only 126 are charter schools—publicly funded but independently run and largely free of union rule

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问题     Of the 658 schools in Chicago, only 126 are charter schools—publicly funded but independently run and largely free of union rules. Fifteen more are due to open this year. More notable, though, is that four of the most recently-approved charters are in areas where the city recently decided to close 49 public schools—the largest round of such closures in America’s history.
    Most of the closed schools served poor black children, and were in parts of the city with a shrinking population. The city government argued that these schools were under-used, and that closing them would save $ 233m that could be reinvested. So it has been; in new science labs, computers, wireless, libraries, art rooms and air conditioning in the charters that took in children from the closed schools.
    Charters have worked well in Chicago. Most parents like them, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Board of Education are behind them. The Noble Network, which already runs 14 charter high schools, has just been given permission to open two new ones. Around 36% of the 9,000, mostly poor, children enrolled with Noble can expect to graduate from college, compared with 11 % for this income bracket city-wide.
    A 2013 study by Stanford University found that the typical Illinois charter pupil gained two weeks of additional learning in reading, and a month in maths, over their counterparts in traditional public schools. One city network of charters, Youth Connection, is credited with reducing Chicago’s dropout rate by 7% in a decade. Overall, however, the city’s public schools are in a sorry state: 51,000 out of 240,000 elementary-school pupils did not meet state reading standards in 2013.
    Some will always argue that charters cream off the brighter children and leave sink schools, deprived of resources, behind. The teachers’ unions hate charter schools because they are non-unionised. So they remain a rarity nationwide, with only 5% of children enrolled in them. But a PDK/Gallup poll last year found that 70% of Americans support them. Small wonder; a study of charter high schools in Florida found that they boosted pupils’ earning power in later life by more than 10%.
49 public schools were closed because______.
选项 A、they waste resources and cost a lot
B、the government needs fund to invest
C、the facilities of these schools are old
D、the population of students has shrunk
答案A
解析 根据题干中的49 public schools were closed定位到第一段。而讨论关闭这些学校的原因却出现在第二段：Most of the closed schools served poor black children，and were in partsof the city with a shrinking population．The city government argued that these schools were under-used，and that closing them would save $233m that could be reinvested．其中under—used对应选项[A]中的waste resources浪费资源；save $223m对应选项[A]中的cost a lot耗费过多。故答案选项为[A]。
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