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CPS alters plans to shut down three Englewood high schools over the summer, will phase them out instead
Chicago Public Schools is backtracking on its controversial decision to shut down three Englewood high schools at the end of the 2017-’18 school year and now says it won’t close them until the current freshmen graduate. Harper, Hope, and TEAM Englewood high schools will be phased out over the next three years, and a fourth high school, Robeson, will likely close over the summer, according to CPS chief executive officer Janice Jackson. “Englewood students deserve a state-of-the-art high school and a world-class education, which is why we’re excited to build an $85 million campus that will rival the city’s best schools,” she said in a statement. “At the same time, we want to honor current students and their families, and we’ve heard that many of them want to be able to stay and graduate from their current schools.” [Tribune]
