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Article: South Loop School races focus on local enrollment Key issue in 2 council races: recruiting neighborhood kids
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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A group of South Loop residents is throwing hefty resources into
today's local school council election, in hopes of convincing its
upscale neighbors that fresh blood can help improve the traditionally
high-poverty, low-performing South Loop School.
The school is inside the pricey Dearborn Park II town house
complex at 1212 S. Plymouth, but most students come from poorer
families who live between 18th Street and Cermak, including some from
the Hilliard Homes, a public housing development.
Under new boundaries, many of those students will go in the fall
to the new, highly anticipated $47 million National Teachers Academy
at Cermak and Clark. South Loop, which has declining enrollment, will ...