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Category: Schools

Posts related to the report’s section Our Students Deserve Equitably-Funded, Quality Education:

The Wrong Side of Ashland: Skinner, Dett and Brown

Pavlyn Jankov May 23, 2018 May 24, 2018Housing, Justice, Schools
Investment is flowing rapidly and visibly into the areas surrounding downtown Chicago. But many neighborhoods, some often just outside these zones of wealthy development, continue to shed jobs and public investment in a cycle of neglect. Chicago Public Schools had…

Environmental Racism Puts Our Students at Risk

Sarah Rothschild May 9, 2018 May 9, 2018Health, Housing, Schools
Environmental Racism protest, photo by Frank Thomas via Southeast Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke The appalling filth and environmental hazards in our schools are driven by decades of neglect, particularly in schools that serve Black and Brown children. But Chicago's working class communities of color have been dogged by generations of environmental racism, as well.

Chicago’s Amazon Bid: More at Stake Than Just Tax Dollars

Pavlyn Jankov February 13, 2018 February 14, 2018Housing, Jobs, Justice, Schools
Amazon’s logistics footprint expands with the help of billions in tax dollars, but scholars find their promise of job growth empty.

Segregationist Policies’ Impact in CPS

Pavlyn Jankov June 15, 2017 February 14, 2018Schools
A HOLC redlining map of Chicago's South Side Recently, CPS CEO Claypool invoked the racist policies of the south to draw attention to inequitable state funding in Illinois. However, he refuses to acknowledge the ways Jim Crow policies have shaped school opportunity in Chicago, both in the past,…

Stop Criminalizing CPS Students

Sarah Rothschild April 17, 2017 May 11, 2017Justice, Schools
A Chicago police barricade reading "Police Line - Do Not Cross" The City of Chicago and the Chicago Public Schools are targeting certain neighborhoods with police state tactics. Last year, the Chicago Reader and the Shriver Center began investigating police assigned to work inside Chicago Public Schools. The news article and…
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    • Segregationist Policies’ Impact in CPSJune 15, 2017
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