Thursday, August 22, 2013

Activists call for CPS boycott Wednesday - Chicago Sun-Times

Activists call for CPS boycott Wednesday - Chicago Sun-Times:

Activists call for CPS boycott Wednesday

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At City Hall Thursday Jitu Brown (left) Kenwood OaklCommunity OrganizatiParrish Brown senior Dyett High School  group's youth leader call
At City Hall on Thursday, Jitu Brown (left), of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, and Parrish Brown, a senior at Dyett High School and the group's youth leader, call for a boycott of Chicago Public Schools on Aug. 28, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. | Lauren FitzPatrick~Sun-Times
Updated: August 22, 2013 10:14PM
 

Community activists are calling for a boycott of Chicago Public Schools next Wednesday.
About 50 activists at City Hall on Thursday urged parents to keep kids home from school to show CPS that education is a human right and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
The boycott is part of a national effort of community groups in 25 cities to protest school closings and budget cuts.
Dyett High School senior Parrish Brown, whose school is phasing out a grade at a time, said he’ll boycott “CPS and the appointed rubber-stamp school board” to show his support of an elected school board.
“We will have a citywide expression of rage next Wednesday and appoint every person of voting age toward a solution for our suffering — an elected school board in the city of Chicago,” Brown said. “To sabotage Dyett and negatively impact the education of me and my peers is a violation of our human rights. Mayor Rahm