BY AMZAD ALI, age 12, and IndyKids staff Demonstrators held a sit-in at Chicago City Hall in support of the 12 hunger strikers fighting to save Dyett High School. September 2015. PHOTO: Bob Simpson/Flickr In 2013, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced that it would...
By HASSAN DOOSTDAR, age 10 9-year-old activist and student, Asean Johnson, speaks at a Chicago Teachers Union rally against school closures. PHOTO: Charles Miller Earlier this year, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system voted to close 49 elementary schools in the...
By ANA PHELAN, age 9 Throughout the United States, public schools are being shut down in various cities, officials say, to save money. They claim that the schools being shut down have too few students attending and are producing low test scores. But shutting down...
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