Some council members balked at the transfer of newcomer students out of their wards. CPS also cites need for bilingual staff.
Migrants look out the window as they ride a CTA bus leaving the High Ridge YMCA shelter to be transferred to Daley College on June 13, 2023.
Hassly Cespedes, 6, her father, Jonni Cespedes, 32, and his wife Eliany Pina, 26, outside the Chicago Police Department's 3rd District station Aug. 21, 2023. Hassly and her brother Hassler Pina, 9, were told they couldn’t enroll at Emmett Louis Till Math and Science Academy earlier in the day because the school lacked translation services.
“I think the families really liked the stability of the school; they liked what was going on there,” Lee said. “And they’re wondering about what happens with their children going to school.” Ald. Jeannette Taylor, 20th, chair of the council’s education committee, asked why a program couldn’t be created at Jesse Sherwood Elementary School in her ward. “I can see CPS in two years coming after that school,” she said, alluding to the upcoming end to a moratorium on school closures in 2025.
He said the district is committed to immediately enrolling students in temporary living situations at any school where they show up so they can receive other social services before being transferred.
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