Daily Archives: Thursday, February 25, 2010

published at 6:26 pm Thursday, February 25, 2010

Board Votes to Destroy 8 More Public Schools

By Jim Vail February 24, 2010 The Chicago Board of Education members voted to destroy eight Chicago public schools after massive community outrage forced schools chief Ron Huberman to take six schools off the list to be closed, consolidated, phased out or face turnaround. “This is a sad day for public education,” said Alderman Pat [...]

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published at 6:08 pm Thursday, February 25, 2010

Press Release: Board of Education Hides School Closing Votes from Community

Today eight Chicago Public Schools were closed or “turned around” by a secret Board of Education vote. Abandoning past practice, the Board did not have a public roll call vote. Mary Richardson-Lowry, the new Board President, simply ordered to “record the last positive vote,” not even mentioning the schools by name, but referred coldly to [...]

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