As Parents and Community Leaders of Dyett High School in Chicago Strike to Keep Their School Open NY Matches Their Efforts in Solidarity
(Long Island, NY) AQE stands in solidarity with the parents and community leaders of Chicago by joining them in today’s one-day hunger strike to fight for Dyett High School. The Dyett community designed a plan to transform their school into a community school that is eco-friendly and offers advanced technology courses for the Black and Latino youth in Chicago called the Global Leadership and Green Technology High School. Unfortunately, their potential for transformation is under attack by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his hedge fund ‘reformers’ agenda of school closings. The same toxic market based approach to education schema that we experience in New York with Governor Cuomo can be witnessed nationwide. Shutting students out of an opportunity for an excellent education by enforcing school closings will never be the answer and no parent should have to hunger strike to prove that.
