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Tag: STEM education

Phantoms Playing Double-Dutch: Why the Fight for Dyett is Bigger than One Chicago School Closing

Eve Ewing August 30, 2015 September 3, 2015Action, Schools
Photo: The twelve Dyett hunger strikers They were gathered in the name of Dyett, the high school that the leaders of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced in 2012 would be shuttered at the end of 2015. This group of parents, community members, and students sat in the 95-degree heat to demand a meeting with the alderman, Will Burns. They wanted…

Questioning the Expansion of STEM and Military Programs in CPS

Sarah Rothschild June 15, 2015 June 19, 2015Justice, Schools
On June 5, the mayor announced a STEM pilot program at Phoenix Military Academy.  CPS already created a STEM program at Rickover Naval Academy in 2013.  It is not a coincidence that STEM is being promoted in military schools…
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