Advocacy groups opposing the planned shutdown of 49 schools in Chicago are turning to the United Nations for help, urging U.N. officials to investigate and take steps to prevent human rights abuses which, they say, will result from the closures.
In the latest in a number of appeals by U.S. civic organizations to the world body, the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights this week submitted a letter to the U.N. human rights apparatus in Geneva, asking that it “investigate and take preventative measures to address the potential domestic and international human rights violations that may result from these school closings.”
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The action comes alongside two federal lawsuits seeking injunctions to block the closure of the institutions by the nation’s third-largest public school district before the new school year begins.
Chicago Public Schools says there are currently some 500,000 available classroom seats in the district but only 400,000 students. It argues that millions of dollars saved in shutting down schools deemed to be “underutilized” can be used to improve education for students at the schools to which they will be relocated.
Opponents of the move say it will disproportionately affect minority students, and worry about the risk to students’ safety as they are compelled to cross gangs’ turf boundaries to reach their new schools.Read the rest HERE.
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3 comments:
Raise your hand if you care what the U.N. says or does.
Do you think they'll boycott all of the taxpayer dollars that are keeping them in business?
Here in Arizona we have a lot of charter schools. Kids can attend these schools instead of public ones for no extra cost. Our school superintendent has capitalized on this by taking underperforming and less well attended public schools and turning them into charter schools. These schools are different in their functions. It keeps money in the school district, keeps the parents happy, and utilizes buildings that are already built. This is a system that really helps parents, since there are other choices, and we aren't stuck with the failed union choices only....
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This is being pushed by the liberal loon dems in Chicago. They wind up their brain dead base and send them off to protest.
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