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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Little Village schools fighting school crowding hold the line

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Little Village schools fighting school crowding hold the line:

Little Village schools fighting school crowding hold the line

Community activists gather outside Saucedo/Telpochcalli to demand that CPS postpone its co-location plan. 
I'm told that CPS has pulled its plan to move Spry Community Links High School into Saucedo/Telpochcalli, off the agenda of the February board meeting and agreed to protesters' demand to review the plan with community input. While there's nothing in writing yet, community activists who staged last week's sit-in against the consolidation plan, are calling it a victory.

This from Progress Illinois:
The district faced community pushback, including a sit-in staged by parents, students and community stakeholders last week, over its plan to co-locate the high school grades of John Spry Community School in the building that houses Maria Saucedo Elementary Scholastic Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Little Village schools fighting school crowding hold the line: