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  2. Mercy Home for Boys and Girls - Wikipedia

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    Mercy Home is composed of two separate campuses where abused and neglected children are cared for—the Boys' Campus, located in Chicago's West Loop area, and the Girls' Campus, located south, in Chicago's Morgan Park community. Today, abused and neglected children (both boys and girls) are assisted by one of Mercy Home's fourteen residential ...

  3. One group in Chicago continues to hold our kids back from ...

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    The Chicago Teachers Union does not hold the best interests of our youth at heart and we must recognize that if we want a better America. After all, the quality of the youth of today determines ...

  4. American Indian boarding schools - Wikipedia

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    Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Anglo-American culture.

  5. Residential segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The removal of these neighborhoods disproportionately affected black Atlanta citizens, and made housing more expensive and poverty more concentrated on the southern side of Atlanta, in counties such as DeKalb and Fulton. [54] [59] A picture of Georgia by counties, with the counties in red representing the Atlanta Metropolitan Area.

  6. Chicago Board of Ed votes to shift priorities from school ...

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    Signaling a paradigm shift in a school system largely shaped by choice, the Chicago Board of Education passed a resolution Thursday to prioritize neighborhood schools in Chicago Public Schools ...

  7. Over a 48-hour period last weekend, three shootings erupted within a mile of one another in Chicago’s downtown area, leaving two people dead. During that same time, some 17 other people were ...

  8. Canadian Indian residential school system - Wikipedia

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    Boarding schools in Canada worked towards assimilation of Native students. Historians Brian Klopotek and Brenda Child explain, "Education for Indians was not mandatory in Canada until 1920, long after compulsory attendance laws were passed in the United States, although families frequently resisted sending their children to the residential schools.

  9. Where the Spirit Lives - Wikipedia

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    Where the Spirit Lives is a 1989 television film about Aboriginal children in Canada being taken from their tribes to attend residential schools for assimilation into majority culture. Written by Keith Ross Leckie and directed by Bruce Pittman , it aired on CBC Television on October 29, 1989. [ 2 ]