BUDGET CUTS
In a partnership with Raise Your Hand, a citywide parent group, we are helping to form a Ward 11 TIF Squad. CPS has drastically cut individual school budgets for next school year. Some known examples in our neighborhood include: Graham -$300k; Haines -$300k; and Sheridan -$516k.
We need people to call Alderman Balcer at 773 254 6677. Ask him to call the Mayor to tell him he needs to declare a TIF Surplus to give some funds back to our schools. If you'd like to get updates on the TIF Squad and possible Toilet Paper Drives (yeah, it's that bad) in our neighborhood, please contact Jennie at jenniebiggs72@yahoo.com.
10 YEAR DRAFT MASTER FACILITIES PLAN
Please read this blog post to find out more about our efforts to bring people together to provide input to CPS:
http://bridgeportalliance.blogspot.com/2013/06/schools-update.html
Thank you!!!
Bridgeport Alliance is a grassroots organization of local residents and institutions committed to engage in the decision making that impacts our community utilizing education, advocacy, and collaborative action to promote responsive government and an improved quality of life for all residents. For more information or to join our mailing list, contact info@bridgeportalliance.org
Showing posts with label Graham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graham. Show all posts
Friday, June 21, 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013
BRIDGEPORT ALLIANCE, COMMUNITY ACTION STOPS CLOSURE OF SOUTH SIDE SCHOOLS
BRIDGEPORT ALLIANCE
Contact: Maureen Sullivan
Tel: (773) 719-6655
maureen@southloopdigital.com
March 21, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BRIDGEPORT ALLIANCE, COMMUNITY ACTION STOPS CLOSURE OF SOUTH SIDE SCHOOLS
Bridgeport Alliance has learned that the Chicago Public Schools have decided to reverse their earlier decision and to keep Libby, Hendricks, Dewey, McClellan, Armour and Graham schools open.
While there are other schools in the affected neighborhoods that deserve to stay open, and all the information is not in yet, Bridgeport Alliance celebrates today's decision by CPS as a victory of community activism in the face of bureaucratic indifference to economically hard-hit South
Side neighborhoods.
Earlier in the year, Bridgeport Alliance reached out to neighboring Bronzeville, Back Of The Yards, Fuller Park, Chinatown and Canaryville and found lots of concern among parents about announced closures of schools but little to no organization against efforts to close neighborhood schools.
Bridgeport Alliance hosted its Public Education Forum on February 6th 2013, bringing over 80 activists by bus to the CPS public forum in Fuller Park to add to the chorus against singling out the schools in the city's most economically vulnerable areas. Later Bridgeport Alliance school forums and meetings with Fuller Park concentrated nearly 300 activists in opposition to the CPS closure plan.
Targeted schools remain open. Community activism works. But the fight is not over.
Public education as a whole is in serious danger from misguided attempts to address the effects of poverty without addressing its causes. School performance is driven by a neighborhood's economic health, not the other way around. Neighborhoods across the South Side have served notice that
we will not let CPS, The Board Of Education and City Hall get this wrong
If you'd like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Maureen Sullivan, please call Mary Welter at (312) 339-4369 or email Bridgeport Alliance at mvawelter@gmail.com
Contact: Maureen Sullivan
Tel: (773) 719-6655
maureen@southloopdigital.com
March 21, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BRIDGEPORT ALLIANCE, COMMUNITY ACTION STOPS CLOSURE OF SOUTH SIDE SCHOOLS
Bridgeport Alliance has learned that the Chicago Public Schools have decided to reverse their earlier decision and to keep Libby, Hendricks, Dewey, McClellan, Armour and Graham schools open.
While there are other schools in the affected neighborhoods that deserve to stay open, and all the information is not in yet, Bridgeport Alliance celebrates today's decision by CPS as a victory of community activism in the face of bureaucratic indifference to economically hard-hit South
Side neighborhoods.
Earlier in the year, Bridgeport Alliance reached out to neighboring Bronzeville, Back Of The Yards, Fuller Park, Chinatown and Canaryville and found lots of concern among parents about announced closures of schools but little to no organization against efforts to close neighborhood schools.
Bridgeport Alliance hosted its Public Education Forum on February 6th 2013, bringing over 80 activists by bus to the CPS public forum in Fuller Park to add to the chorus against singling out the schools in the city's most economically vulnerable areas. Later Bridgeport Alliance school forums and meetings with Fuller Park concentrated nearly 300 activists in opposition to the CPS closure plan.
Targeted schools remain open. Community activism works. But the fight is not over.
Public education as a whole is in serious danger from misguided attempts to address the effects of poverty without addressing its causes. School performance is driven by a neighborhood's economic health, not the other way around. Neighborhoods across the South Side have served notice that
we will not let CPS, The Board Of Education and City Hall get this wrong
If you'd like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Maureen Sullivan, please call Mary Welter at (312) 339-4369 or email Bridgeport Alliance at mvawelter@gmail.com
Monday, February 25, 2013
BA in the News
Kevin Robinson on School Closings, Charters and Clout
CPS School Closings Plan Has South Side Schools Making Pitch to Stay Open
Public School Closings Could Harm Special Education Students, Critics Say
Southwest Side Braces for More CPS School Closings Forums
Ald. James Balcer: McClellan and Graham 'Should Not Close'
And, Claudia in the World Journal!
CPS School Closings Plan Has South Side Schools Making Pitch to Stay Open
Public School Closings Could Harm Special Education Students, Critics Say
Southwest Side Braces for More CPS School Closings Forums
Ald. James Balcer: McClellan and Graham 'Should Not Close'
And, Claudia in the World Journal!
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