Commentary: Don’t take school choice away from Chicago’s families – Chicago Sun-Times

Stacey Freeman, the mother of three boys: "I am a Chicago Public Schools parent and I am baffled that my voice, and the voices of hundreds of thousands of parents like me, is not part of the conversation...Locking families into sending our children to their zoned school isn’t a decision that promotes equity, and it certainly doesn’t empower our community. Do you know what is empowering? Knowing your child will function better in a smaller, quieter environment and finding a pre-K program at a charter school that gives that to them."  
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Waggs
2 years ago

BJs main argument for eliminating choice doesn’t hold water. He states that neighborhood schools suffer from years of „disinvestment”. How? Every CPS school is allocated the same amount of money per pupil every year. Lane Tech doesn’t get a larger cut per kid than Schurz. The people running the school and the clientele therein, are what makes the difference.

mark
2 years ago

I wonder who Stacy voted for or if Stacy even voted at all?

Riverbender
2 years ago
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Add those “hundreds of thousands” she refers to as well.

Fullbladder
2 years ago

She can thank the Black “Leadership”, in Chicago, that her voice isn’t heard. Did you hear the statement Rainbow Push put out about keeping some semblance of choice in Chicago(?)…me either.

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