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Schools to focus on kids most likely to get shot :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Education


Schools to focus on kids most likely to get shot :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Education:

"Using a newfangled probability model, Chicago Public School officials have identified the 1,200 Chicago public high school students most likely to be gunshot victims -- and will direct millions in resources to help them this school year, Schools CEO Ron Huberman revealed Thursday.

'These kids are in trouble, and we need to help them,'' Huberman said as he unveiled a $30 million plan to stem the student shooting deaths that have traumatized the nation's third-largest school system for several years."