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Stockton and Stewart Elementary Schools, both in Uptown, and Gale and Field Elementary Schools, in Rogers Park, are four of potentially up to 135 elementary schools that may be closed by CPS. The Board of Education is using faulty building utilization figures to execute a plan to close massive numbers of schools, disrupting children’s lives and destabilizing communities—and studies show it will save a minimum amount of money!

CPS is holding neighborhood hearings on school closings before releasing its official public list of school closings. CPS Chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett will be in attendance.

Join NA4J members and our coalition partners at this Monday's CPS Hearing:

CPS Public Hearing
Monday, January 28th
7:00 to 9:00pm
Truman College
1145 W. Wilson

NA4J is calling for a moratorium on school closings and for an elected representative school board (the current seven-member board is appointed by the mayor). Along with our partners at CODE (Communities Organized for Democracy in Education), we are circulating a petition for an elected school board.