“If CPS (Chicago Public Schools) carries out its plan to close 54 schools, up to 60% of receiving schools will become overcrowded schools or have overcrowded classrooms."

"90% of the affected schools have a majority black student population. 71% have a majority black student and teaching staff."

"There is a clear double-standard when CPS is closing and consolidating schools on the south and west sides in order to make them ‘efficient’, and in many instances over-crowded, while at the same time funneling money to a school in Ravenswood to expand further when CPS deems it ‘efficient’."

http://www.ctunet.com/blog/school-closures-facts-and-statistics

I don't use keyboard at night, so will write my commentary tomorrow.

The maps in the poster compare demographics by race with arts and music programs. A school without arts and music is not a real school.

And the point is that the Clintons accept huge payoffs from foreign entities to approve and construct schools for very rich people ($37,000 a year) while schools in poor (mostly POC) neighborhoods are shut down and kids crowded together like sardines in a can in places where music and art are eliminated.

The neighborhoods which have their schools removed can become hopeless predator zones, Fort Apache's so to speak, because the way a government improves a neighborhood and make it a peaceful place is by having good schools, libraries, art and music and other youth programs, clean and safe parks and programs, and friendly community-based security.

One of the schools in the Southside was even found to have a dangerously high lead level in the water...

I have this report from Janna in Palestine. Janna is a primary school student from near Ramallah. The point here is that the Bedouins of the West Bank have built their own school using everything from old tires, to "mud and wattle", so that they may educate their children. It is new. And, of course, the Israelis (in the video there is a war machine helicopter doing a fly over) are threatening to demolish it, and if the past is any indication, will.

If you have followed this far, then you can not deny that there is a connection between the struggle of People of Color in the USA and the oppressed minorities in Palestine. This extends to segregation of Arabs from Jews within Israel. (http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-makdisi-why-support-the-acade...)

Five hours ago. We want our right to education-- A Report from the start of the school year, the tire school in Khan Alhmr

The school has more than 150 students from the first grade until the ninth grade of the Bedouin, in the Khan Alhmr, between Jerusalem and Jericho, the Israeli occupation is trying to expel them from the area and the demolition of the only school that has been built from car tires and mud.

Occupation have not allowed to extend the electricity or water, even forcing them to leave the area because Israel wants settlers to come and build settlements builds for Israelis to live in. Indigenous people, the Bedouins, have been expelled.

Israel is stealing all the land between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. We have the right not to destroy our schools and learn like other children of the world. -- Janna

Stills from Janna's video: