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Education is an important tool for self-empowerment and future success, however overcrowding in many of Chicago’s Latino neighborhood schools leaves students in precarious situations. Overcrowding has been a long-standing problem for the city’s Latino community, and as a recent UNO study makes clear, it continues to disproportionately shortchange Latino students, limiting their full potential.
In overcrowded schools, closets and hallways become classrooms, students are denied one-on-one attention from school staff, and many educational opportunities are lost due to a lack of space. It becomes easier for students in these environments to lose interest and fall through the cracks.
We have to do better for the future of the City of Chicago and the future of its Latino communities. Doing nothing about overcrowding in Chicago Public Schools will continue to guarantee a high dropout rate and a low level workforce for a major segment of our city’s population.
We join UNO in calling on our state legislators to provide funding for new schools in overburdened Latino neighborhoods and we support its initiative for public/private partnerships to build new UNO schools.
Visit www.endschoolovercrowding.org.
Aldermen who signed this letter:
Edward M. Burke, 14th Ward
Richard Mell, 33rd Ward
Ray Suarez, 31st Ward
Daniel Solis, 25th Ward
George Cardenas, 12th Ward
Arial Reboyras, 30th Ward
Manuel Flores, 1st Ward
Walter Burnett, 27th Ward
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Wednesday, May 27, 09 @ 1:45 pm
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