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DePriest supporters laud academic awards, teachers in efforts to remove school from CPS’ potential closure list

By Ellyn Fortino | March 1, 2013

DePriest has earned numerous academic awards and last year, a first-grade instructor received the Golden Apple Award honoring exceptional teaching (pictured).

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May Community Academy after-school and community programs too valuable to lose, advocates for keeping school open say

By Ellyn Fortino | February 28, 2013

The YMCA and other service providers offer after-school, summer and weekend programs for students, parents and community members at May.

News

Seven underutilized Austin schools remain on CPS’ list, could face closure

By Ellyn Fortino | February 15, 2013

Hundreds of West Side community members attended a second CPS meeting in the Austin-North Lawndale Network hours after the list was made public Wednesday, urging that their school be spared.

Opinion

No more auction blocks, no school closures

By Bonita Robinson | February 12, 2013

Bonita Robinson, a member of the Chicago Teachers Union Black Caucus, says Chicago Public Schools’ utilization crisis is a false narrative.

News

Education activists, parents refute CPS utilization numbers

By Ellyn Fortino | February 1, 2013

The group called for no school shutdowns Thursday night at Friendship Baptist Church at the first of two CPS Austin-North Lawndale Network community meetings.

Community

West Side school closure community meetings

By AustinTalks | January 30, 2013

CPS will hold two meetings about neighborhood school closures Jan. 31 and Feb. 13 in the Austin-North Lawndale network.

News

More than a dozen Austin schools underutilized, CPS data show

By Ellyn Fortino | January 22, 2013

CPS will hold two community meetings Jan. 31 and Feb. 13 in the Austin-North Lawndale network for feedback about what neighborhood schools could close.

News

Austin residents ready to fight closures

By Reema Amin | December 20, 2012

One woman urges residents at a recent community meeting to take more dramatic action to prevent West Side students from losing their schools.

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