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West Side residents fight to keep neighborhood schools open

By Ellyn Fortino | February 3, 2013

Friendship Baptist Church was nearly filled to its 900-person capacity Thursday night for Chicago Public Schools’ school closures meeting in the Austin-North Lawndale Network.

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.

Opinion

Fuzzy math? Austin advocate questions draft guidelines for school actions

By Dwayne Truss | November 2, 2012

Dwayne Truss says the numbers CPS used to determine West Side schools’ space utilization do not add up, and the figures favor more funding for white students, less for African-Americans.

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