School was closed a year ago but activists say new plan creates discriminatory selection policies that disproportionately affect poor and black studentsChicago protesters have angrily vowed to continue a hunger strike over school reform plans, reacting to the city’s announcement that it would reopen a South Side high school on its own terms.The city’s public school department (CPS) on Thursday announced that formerly closed Dyett high school would reopen as an “open enrollment, arts-focused neighborhood high school and community innovation lab”.
Comment on Chicago protesters continue hunger strike as fate of high school divides city
Alan Yuhasin New York and Noah Berlatsky in Chicago, The Guardian
Fri, 09/04/2015 - 7:02am
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