The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers union says it will “set up informational picket lines” at city schools today before classes in protest of a plan to close scores of schools. “The whole point is to start letting parents know their schools may be closed down, and we don’t know which ones,” said Barbara Goodman, a union spokeswoman, who was heading to the Kelly School in Germantown this morning.

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