Dyett To Reopen As Neighborhood Arts School
...he cautioned: “There is more listening to do.” Burns said it didn’t matter whose proposal had been chosen, as long as Bronzeville-area students had access to a high quality [...]
Dyett High School Strike Continues After Major Concessions
...CPS did not follow its own process.” U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Chicago) tried to mollify protesters over the decision, saying he had worked alongside members of the Kenwood Oakland [...]
Organizing, Not Activism: Dyett HS Hunger Strikers
...rators with political connections. “Passing Dyett High School out of existence and handing the property off to some privatizer is negating, it’s erasing almost a [...]
Join The Fight To Save Dyett High School
...ahm Emanuel and tell him to direct the school board to support the Dyett Global Leadership and Green Technology High School by telephone at 312 744 5000 or tweet at him [...]
In Chicago: Dyett Hunger Strike Day 14 – Supporting & Defending
...rikers ask that a decision be made regarding their proposal to keep the only open enrollment high school in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. The mayor does not come out. An aide is [...]
Hunger Strike For Dyett Passes 22 Days
...munity that is not from the community is not about the community. So where do the Dyett 12 go from here? There is a team of negotiators working to form a conclusion that is [...]
Demonstrators Arrested In Sit-In To Save Dyett High School
...y CPS to switch schools. Though the Board of Education promised the school could phase out one class year at a time, earlier this month it said that “due to financial constraints tied to [...]
Chicago Organizers Lead Hunger Strike To Save Dyett High School
...udents? We cannot allow that. I am joining in the hunger strike today, and I urge the people of the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools family across the country to join me in whatever way you [...]
Dyett HS Protesters Force Chicago Mayor To Shut Down Budget Meeting
...rican Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, who both attended Wednesday’s event in Washington. .@rweingarten @AFTunion:if u understand # of #schoolclosures, silencing of [...]
Report From Chicago: Dyett Hunger Strike Ends
...ill Baykan. Chicago, IL – September 19, 2015. The hunger strike for Dyett High School ended this morning on day 34. Once again I headed to the south side to be with my [...]
FERC Fasters In Solidarity With Dyett12
...prioritizes private profit at the expense of people and the earth. Furthermore, many FERC approved projects are placed right next to threatened schools. BXE sent this letter to the [...]
A Conversation With Jitu Brown – Power & History Of #WeChoose
...ve justice programs and student leadership programs. In 2 years Dyett had the most significant increase of students going to college and the largest decrease in students going [...]
Eleven Parents Launch Hunger Strike
...g their commitment to the process they outlined, CPS and the new education chair for Chicago’s City Council, Ald. Will Burns, have subverted the rules to “grease the rails” [...]
Sit-In At Chicago Mayor’s Office Over School Closing
...dents, Parents and Community Members Chain Themselves to Statue As I’m posting this, south-siders, CTU members and community activists from around the city are sitting-in outside the [...]
Impending Chicago Teachers’ Strike
...lives is a broad human rights struggle, Kaba adds, with a strong labor component and an intersectional analysis that helped bring focus to the deaths of Black women like Rekia Boyd and Sandra [...]