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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Rahm to turn his neighborhood school white. « Fred Klonsky

Rahm to turn his neighborhood school white. « Fred Klonsky:

Rahm to turn his neighborhood school white.

La Salle Language Academy is a magnet school in the middle of one of Chicago’s richest neighborhoods. The Mayor lives there.

It was one of the first magnet schools established as a result of the order to desegregate Chicago schools three decades ago.

La Salle is now slated for demagnetizing by the same Mayor who is shutting down schools primarily on the