Dyett To Reopen As Neighborhood Arts School
...cess to a high quality high school in the neighborhood. “We all fought for Dyett together,” said Burns, who vehemently opposed the [...]
Dyett High School Strike Continues After Major Concessions
...ide members of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization spearheading the Dyett protests and “I identify with them.” [...]
Organizing, Not Activism: Dyett HS Hunger Strikers
..., it’s erasing almost a century of our people’s history on the south side. Dyett High School was named after Capt Walter [...]
Join The Fight To Save Dyett High School
...00 or tweet at him @chicagosmayor. 3. Follow the hunger strike at #FightforDyett and #WeAreDyett. From Teachers for Social Justice: [...]
In Chicago: Dyett Hunger Strike Day 14 – Supporting & Defending
...he mayor does not come out. An aide is sent instead. As a supporter of the Dyett hunger strikers, as well as a supporter of the concept of public [...]
Hunger Strike For Dyett Passes 22 Days
...m a conclusion that is suitable to the Coalition for the Revitalization of Dyett which includes Jesse Jackson and key individuals from the Chicago [...]
Demonstrators Arrested In Sit-In To Save Dyett High School
...due to financial constraints tied to low enrollment” academic offerings at Dyett would be severely limited this year. This includes a lack of [...]
Chicago Organizers Lead Hunger Strike To Save Dyett High School
...country to join me in whatever way you can. We are using the hashtags #SaveDyett, #WeAreDyett and #FightForDyett, [...]
Dyett HS Protesters Force Chicago Mayor To Shut Down Budget Meeting
...and # of #schoolclosures, silencing of parent voice, u understand #FightForDyett pic.twitter.com/T2JmBVItNj — Journey 4 Justice (@J4J_USA) [...]
Report From Chicago: Dyett Hunger Strike Ends
...outh side to be with my friends and fellow education fighters known as the Dyett Twelve. Education activists had been told that the hunger strikers [...]
FERC Fasters In Solidarity With Dyett12
...ls. BXE sent this letter to the Dyett organizers and hunger strikers: Dear Dyett 12 and all working to Save Dyett [...]
A Conversation With Jitu Brown – Power & History Of #WeChoose
...ecrease in students going to prison. According to Brown, the district took Dyett’s resources and slashed their budget. In 2011 [...]
Eleven Parents Launch Hunger Strike
...to “grease the rails” for an underperforming contract operator to acquire Dyett High School. The sabotage of and fight for [...]
Sit-In At Chicago Mayor’s Office Over School Closing
...m around the city are sitting-in outside the mayor’s office demanding that Dyett High School not be closed. If Rahm and Byrd-Bennett carry out [...]
Impending Chicago Teachers’ Strike
...of Black women like Rekia Boyd and Sandra Bland. The hunger strike to save Dyett High School was framed through the movement for Black lives, and [...]