DECISION ON URBAN PREP MORALLY BANKRUPT AND ILLEGAL
Black children deserve a quality education. It is a right. Further, Black children deserve the community standing up to protect their rights, therefor the fight continues. Our call on the Governor and the Mayor to save Urban Prep continues.
This fight is straightforward: Black children deserve a quality education and Urban Prep is providing our boys and young men with a quality education, therefor Urban Prep should not be closed.
Please read the below updates on the status of the fight to save Urban Prep.
Importantly, COAL will hold a press conference on Tuesday, June 20th, at 11:00am, on the 3rd floor of City Hall to again call on the Governor and the Mayor to redress the CPS Board and ISBE actions to close Urban Prep. The press release will follow.
Respectfully,
COAL Board of Directors
Let Us be intentional in all aspects of the Work that must be done.
The general assembly passed legislation, signed into law by Governor Pritzker, which transitions Chicago to an elected school board. The following provision is contained within the legislation which is now the law:
The very legislation which paves the way for an elected Chicago school board, placed a moratorium on school closings, and with no exceptions to this moratorium written into the law. It appears that both the CPS Board and Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) were in clear violation of Illinois law with votes to close down Urban prep.
What say you Governor Pritzker (you signed the legislation into law)?
We the community say, stop this morally bankrupt and illegal closing of Urban Prep, and let it continue to provide our boys and young men with the educational and character-building tools to succeed in life.
That is a ‘Stone COAL’ truth.