To: Chicago Public Schools Board of Education

CPS: Cease & Desist

Stop the "turnaround" of our neighborhood schools! Our kids deserve the resources to succeed, not a reshuffling of the same stacked deck.

Why is this important?

CPS is at it once again! They are coming after our neighborhood schools... our kids' place of learning and handing it over to a private charter school operation. CPS calls the process "turnaround." It is anything but that. It is simply another word for closing our schools. A University of Chicago study showed turnarounds and other dramatic school transformations result in a younger, whiter teaching force.

This happens just a few days after parents, teachers, and students stood up to CPS by opting out of the meaningless ISAT.

Gresham Elementary in the Auburn-Gresham community, Dvorak Technology Academy in North Lawndale and McNair Elementary in Austin will be turned over to the privately run Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL), which CPS Board President David Vitale once headed.

Tell CPS that we have had enough of closures, turnarounds, charters, military academies, and underfunded and overcrowded schools.