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Benito Juarez Community Academy, (commonly known as Juarez High School; abbreviated BJCA), is a public four-year high school in the Pilsen neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Juarez is named for Mexican president Benito Pablo Juárez García. The school is a part of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) district.
In 1949, after making a request to Samuel Stritch, Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, a priest at St. Agnes parish in Chicago Heights was given permission to purchase land and begin raising funds for the construction of a coed high school. By 1951 enough capital had been raised to hire a local architect to design the building.
Chicago Cares was founded in 1991 with the goal of encouraging working professionals to participate in short term volunteering projects that aligned with their work schedules. [6] [7] Co-founders Leslie Bluhm and Mary Prchal created the organization because of a need to have an outlet to publicize volunteer opportunities. [8]
Tom Amadio, an alumnus of Bloom High School and formerly the assistant superintendent of Chicago Heights district, became the superintendent in 2007. [ 2 ] On February 4, 2021, the district used a gymnasium as a vaccination center so its staff could be vaccinated and therefore facilitate the district reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic in ...
A second Chicago Heights high school, Bloom Trail, was established in 1976 to offset overcrowding. [4] Since 1995, however, Bloom and Bloom Trail have shared the same sports programs, drawing from over 3,000 students [ 5 ] [ 6 ] in grades 9 to 12 .
But the 18-year-old Johnston High School student said his most meaningful volunteer work — being a swim coach at Johnston Middle School — has mattered because he’s gotten to share the ...
In 2019 a board member resigned but then remained on the school board, and there was a political controversy over the board's internal management. [4] In response to a board member using an SD163-issued charge card to pay for $5,000 of expenses, the board passed a policy regulating the cards.
Township High School District 211 is a school district located in Cook County, Illinois, and is the largest high school district in Illinois.District 211 serves the communities of Hoffman Estates, Inverness, Palatine, and Schaumburg, and portions of Arlington Heights, Elk Grove, Hanover Park, Roselle, Rolling Meadows, Streamwood, and South Barrington in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.