A new report from CReATE, an organization of education researchers in Chicago, says that the Chicago Public Schools dramatically underestimated the number of children who will be affected by the mass elimination of public schools in that city.
No one will ever accuse CPS of undue compassion, concern, or attention to the city’s neediest children. As their legacy, they will be remembered for their cold and ruthless indifference to the children who are most at risk.
Please read the CReATE report:
“CReATE Researchers on Impact of Proposed School Closing”
CReATE researchers Josh Radinsky and Federico Waitoller (University of Illinois-Chicago) have prepared a report that details the impacts of the proposed school closings in Chicago in terms of student relocation and faculty dismissal. These researchers find that CPS statements on this matter greatly underestimate the scale of the impact. One of the stunning facts this report reveals is that the number of African American elementary students to be impacted by these actions (34,946, elementary only, not counting the 8 high schools) represents over 27% of all African American children between the ages of 5 and 14 living in the City of Chicago.
The report on the Impact of Proposed School Closings is available at http://tinyurl.com/d86lzdx.
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The absolute truth that the students are of no concern to these corporators and privateers who run CPS. This board and mayor need to be recalled because community, student, teacher or parent are totally ignored in their deliberations. Get rid of them!
Yup, they don’t care.
Excellent (as usual) post from Fred Klonsky about Michelle Obama’s visit to Harper High in Chicago: http://preaprez.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/the-walk-michelle-obama-didnt-walk-in-chicago-today/#comments
LAUSD, Chicago, N.Y., D.C., Philadelphia, Atlanta are all basically criminal organizations in how they operate. In fact, I believe that in a fair court of law they could be convicted and sent to jail. Would that not be fair for the destruction of lives and communities? My goal is to start to put them in jail. Then the word will be out “I will clean up my act, I don’t want to go to prison.” This is all they understand. If there is any law in California we will within the next year have many at LAUSD in jail convicted of breaking just the child abuse laws. Read California Penal Codes 11163-11174.3 and you will see what I mean.