On the first day of spring break, a group of approximately 20 high
school students marched to City Hall to deliver a letter to Mayor Rahm
Emanuel today, announcing their opposition to last week’s announcement
from Chicago Public Schools (CPS) that 54 schools will be closed and
another six are slated for turnaround.
“All CPS students are
victims of this bad policy, because CPS is not listening to student
voices,” said Israel Munoz, a senior at Thomas Kelly High School
in Chicago’s West Side neighborhood of Brighton Park. “Shutting down
public education anywhere in the city makes victims of students
everywhere in the city.”
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