United For Public Schools
We are organized educators, students, families and community members dreaming, working & fighting for people-powered education reform. Join us!
![Whose schools? [Our schools!] Whose schools? [Our schools!] Whose schools? [Our schools!]
That is why we’re doing this, because these are our schools!
The CSOSOS today boycotted school. We are at risk of getting in trouble. But you know what? Fighting for our education is worth getting in trouble for! Fighting for our schools is worth fighting for.
We have to take these [measures]. Closing 54 schools in poor African-American and Hispanic communities is not right.
And now they say that our schools are underutilized. They say that we’re under-enrolled. You know what? That’s a lie. They’ve been lying to us persistently. They’re saying that CPS has a $1 billion deficit, that we have no money—that the city has no money for our schools.
But they’ve given $100 million for DePaul University to build a stadium that they’re only going to use a few times a year. They gave $29.5 million to build a skyscraper on the North side of the city. They gave money for all these other multi-billion [dollar] corporations that are in downtown, but they “don’t have enough money” for our schools, for our children, for our education, and for our futures.
Now is that right? That is not right, that’s why we’re fighting out here.
—Israel Muñoz, Chicago Students Organizing to Save Our Schools Monday, May 20, 2013](http://25.media.tumblr.com/be13d1d069c92d40cee0f6a84de39abc/tumblr_mn70nkdKdc1rhhmt2o1_500.jpg)
Whose schools? [Our schools!]
Whose schools? [Our schools!]
Whose schools? [Our schools!]
Whose schools? [Our schools!]
Whose schools? [Our schools!]
That is why we’re doing this, because these are our schools!
The CSOSOS today boycotted school. We are at risk of getting in trouble. But you know what? Fighting for our education is worth getting in trouble for! Fighting for our schools is worth fighting for.
We have to take these [measures]. Closing 54 schools in poor African-American and Hispanic communities is not right.
And now they say that our schools are underutilized. They say that we’re under-enrolled. You know what? That’s a lie. They’ve been lying to us persistently. They’re saying that CPS has a $1 billion deficit, that we have no money—that the city has no money for our schools.
But they’ve given $100 million for DePaul University to build a stadium that they’re only going to use a few times a year. They gave $29.5 million to build a skyscraper on the North side of the city. They gave money for all these other multi-billion [dollar] corporations that are in downtown, but they “don’t have enough money” for our schools, for our children, for our education, and for our futures.
Now is that right? That is not right, that’s why we’re fighting out here.
—Israel Muñoz,
Chicago Students Organizing to Save Our Schools
Monday, May 20, 2013
Chicago Students Organizing to Save Our Schools
Monday, May 20, 2013