she's stepping down.

>> First off tonight, the CPS board is now planning to say 5 out of 7 charter schools slated for closure.

That's after school leaders rejected a plan to save just 4 of the settle schools which serve mainly Latino students.

The move comes after concerns from families in the Chicago teachers union who are pushing to keep the schools open.

Let's listen to a bit of the debate.

>> Because we have to understand that this is a vote between making a financially responsible decision and doesn't have greater effects across the district in saves some of these schools.

We're keeping school open.

The cost of teachers and staff jobs.

millions of dollars.

>> What families need is for this board and CPS to keep their promise to keep these communities hall to keep the schools open and to give the students the education they deserve.

>> Reporter Matt Masterson joins us now with more on that at the scene.

Like a really long board meeting.

We want to start off reported before that the schools are facing closures because of declining enrollment and increasing cost.

What options have school leaders consider to manage these challenges?

So from us the charter networks perspective, there haven't been too much.

They say that these closures are necessary for exactly those reasons.

Declining enrollment increasing facility management and improvement costs that are necessary to keep the schools viable.

>> Cps has pitched a few different items here, trying to keep some of the schools open some of or possibly all the schools open.

They said some of them could be maintained as they are.

Some of them could be absorbed in become Chicago public school district run schools as opposed to charter schools and the pitch varying numbers that would be viable for that for schools, 5 schools or the board back in December approved the resolution which was amended today seeking to save 7 of those schools.

But that was, again paired down to just 5 today.

>> The district was one weather, like, as you mentioned, plan on closing 3 schools instead of to why this change.

going into today.

That plan was to save for the schools and close 3 of them.

That's what the language in the side.

There was a late amendment added by the board as they were voting on this that tried to save one more of the school.

>> And this isn't fully binding.

They can go back and revise this further.

But the plan now is that these 5 schools will be maintained beyond this current school year.

Cps has said that their analysis has shown that they can't legally fund all 7 of these schools.

That's why they decided to pair down from all 7.

They said charter law doesn't allow them to provide the funding that would be necessary to keep all of the schools open and they can't go beyond that limit.

So that's part of what the discussion was today was trying to figure out how far they can go in saving as many of these schools as possible.

As we know, this has been an emotional roller coaster for parents and staff.

There were 2 schools are at risk of closing.

Are there plans to transition those students affected by those closures?

Us assuming the schools are closed at the end of the year as planned, could move into other acero schools.

They could move into CPS schools or they could end up leaving the planning for that has been underway Sarah made this announcement that they plan to close the 7 last year.

Families are going to be affected by this.

They are going to be notified possibly as soon as tomorrow that their schools plan to be close and that CBS is going to provide them with extra guidance, hold informational meetings, trying to understand what options they have available to them going forward.

>> And it's just switching gears a bit.

We also know that the ice detain someone near another settle school.

Can you tell us about that?

Yeah.

So this was yesterday morning.

A father is dropping off 2 students near Soto and I'd our schools.

There are pair acero schools, not the ones that are being closed but 2 separate ones that are Co located Gage Park.

The father was taken into custody by ICE as he dropped off the kids.

The kids themselves are not taken.

They were escorted into their respective schools.

And ice later confirmed to this arrest did take place and that this was a father that he was taken to custody around 8.15, that they said that he has been deported twice previously