Mayor Mayor Brandon Johnson says he opposes closing schools and our investigation shows they didn’t help students or communities. We explore the alternatives.
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Elijah Stiffend is a class of 2023 graduate of Englewood STEM High School, which opened in 2019 to consolidate incoming students from four underenrolled nearby high schools closed by Chicago Public Schools. This is one model proposed as an alternative to mass closings of low-enrollment schools.
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Students are frequently saddled with debt and jobs with low wages, a WBEZ investigation finds. Recruitment targets Black, brown and low-income students.
The analysis by the University of Chicago released Wednesday also found a reduction in high-level discipline infractions at schools that had gotten rid of their cops.