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Dodge Elementary School - Now served as Chicago Public Schools, Garfield Park Office. Ana Roque De Duprey School - located at 2620 W Hirsch St.; voted to be closed in 2013. The Board of Education approved a sale to IFF Von Humboldt on Jul 22, 2015 for $3,100,000. Main building slated to become mixed-use community for teachers.
Chicago Public Schools were the most racial-ethnically separated among large city school systems, according to research by The New York Times in 2012, [47] as a result of most students' attending schools close to their homes. In the 1970s the Mexican origin student population grew in CPS, although it never exceeded 10% of the total CPS student ...
McManis, John T. Ella Flagg Young and a half-century of the Chicago public schools (1916) online; Peterson, Paul E. School politics Chicago style (U of Chicago Press, 1976) online, a major scholarly study of 1970s. Rury, John L. “Race, Space, and the Politics of Chicago’s Public Schools: Benjamin Willis and the Tragedy of Urban Education.”
The school and property were then sold to the Chicago Public Schools system, which opened the current school in 1998 as Southside College Preparatory Academy. In 2001, the school was named in honor of Gwendolyn Brooks, who was a South Side resident, former U.S. Poet Laureate, and consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress. [9]
The school, then British School of Chicago, was founded in 2001. Located in the Andersonville neighborhood the school opened with 14 students ages 3–5. In 2008, with 350 students across all 15 grades, the school relocated to a new building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood which is now the current site of British International School of Chicago, Lincoln Park.
The UNO Charter School Network (UCSN) was founded in 1998 when UNO recognized the need to bolster public education in Chicago as a way to effect positive change in predominantly Hispanic communities. The first school, Octavio Paz Elementary was in Pilsen, Chicago and has since grown to 13 K-8 elementary schools and 3 high schools.
Chicago International Charter School (CICS) - Northtown Academy is a 4–year charter high school in the North Park neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The school is administered by Civitas Schools. The school is located at the intersection of Pulaski Road and Peterson Avenue and the school's address is 3900 ...
East–West University is a private university in Chicago, Illinois. [2] The university was founded in 1980. [1] It offers associate in liberal arts, office administration, electronics engineering technology, and computer and information science, and bachelor's degrees in behavioral and social sciences, business, electronics engineering technology, mathematics, biology, computer and ...