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Group plans admissions push at Skinner Chicago Journal
"You've got hundreds of kids in the neighborhood with no public school in the West Loop other than Skinner," Sedler said. "I think it's practical and politically hard not to do something to address the needs of these parents."
The kids are rockin', all right Chicago Tribune
One such program, Little Kids Rock, is funded through private donations and has provided 700 guitars and training to pupils in 35 Chicago schools this year.
The Rusty Lamppost Theory: Alderman Bob Fioretti Reader
He shifted his attention to Dunbar Vocational Career Academy up the street. “I had this press conference on Wednesday over here at Dunbar with Bill Daley and Arne Duncan, and I said, ‘I need these couple things at your schools, at these parks you, CPS, own,’ and Duncan started getting them to do what they need to do in some of these parks. I mean, Dunbar had some of the ugliest . . .
Dougherty new principal at Columbus Manor Southtown Star
Dougherty, 30, student-taught in District 122, then spent five years teaching at John Whistler Elementary School on Chicago's South Side.
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Sat Jul 5, 2008 at 11:36 PM
Thursday Morning News, Part 2
Another area that has been gentrified with a great facility, $42 million to build a new school...wanting the school nearby to accept neighborhood children. Where is the fariness when these discussions and news articles are published? Will all neighborhoods get schools built new, or renovated? Can someone please write about West and South side schools that are getting $2 million to $42 million to build, renovate and build new playgrounds to meet the needs of fewer than 800 students? I guess not because the schools recieving all this money and attention are in the areas where the families might move to the suburbs rather than stay in the city. All the money goes into the schools to serve even fewer students than before then they become nieghborhood schools.
It makes me sick to watch so many people moving to the city then enforcing their suburban ideals upon the public school system in the city. If you only want your children to go to school with other people who are exactly like you please move back to the suburbs. The amount of money going into schools in the gentrified areas is unreal. So many people who are paying for the private schools in the city are benefiting from the improvements to the public schools. The ironic thing is many could continue to afford the price of a private school.
Look around at all the overcrowded and crumbling schools in this city where families are unable to afford private schools. That is where all these millions and millions of dollars need to be going.
It makes me sick to watch so many people moving to the city then enforcing their suburban ideals upon the public school system in the city. If you only want your children to go to school with other people who are exactly like you please move back to the suburbs. The amount of money going into schools in the gentrified areas is unreal. So many people who are paying for the private schools in the city are benefiting from the improvements to the public schools. The ironic thing is many could continue to afford the price of a private school.
Look around at all the overcrowded and crumbling schools in this city where families are unable to afford private schools. That is where all these millions and millions of dollars need to be going.
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