School Council Member: "Logandale Needed More Parent Involvement"
The outcry to stop Chicago Public Schools from combining Avondale Elementary and Logandale Middle School showed unity in the community, but it may have been a case of too little, too late —as one local school council member said Thursday that Logandale “needed more parent involvement” in the months leading up to Wednesday’s consolidation move.
“Maybe if they knew what was at stake it would’ve been different, but they never had [parent involvement],” said Sonia Cortez, who serves on the Avondale and Logandale LSCs. “No we don’t know what’s going to happen. The kids are going to go back and forth between both schools, I guess.”
The Chicago Board of Education approved CPS' plan to consolidate the two schools, even though community leaders, educators, and concerned parents worked hard to draft a plan that would work as a compromise. During the talks, CPS officials were slammed for being disrespectful to the community and, at one meeting, even walked out.
The move to consolididate came just a day before another Logan Square school, Frederick
