Deviyea Dean, an eighth grader at Mahalia Jackson Elementary School in Chicago listens as Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis speaks outside the soon to be shuttered school, Thursday, March 21, 2013, about the planned closing of public schools. The city of Chicago began informing teachers, principals and local officials Thursday about which public schools it intends to close under a contentious plan that opponents say will disproportionately affect minority students in the nation's third largest school district. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green), APTOPIX