On the heels of yet another executive scandal, Mayor Emanuel’s handpicked Board of Education has proposed further wreckage. The Board wants to further destabilize Englewood by shutting down its four neighborhood high schools. It also wants to take a thriving school ably serving low-income students on the near south side and hand it over wholesale to wealthier neighbors, driving out current students. The Board is also driving charter expansion in the Grand Crossing neighborhood by giving shuttered Hirsch Metro HS building over to a proposed new charter linked to players in scandal-ridden SUPES Academy, an act that breaks their 2013 promise not to house charters in closed neighborhood school buildings.

The CTU is joining parents, students and neighborhood residents to demand that Emanuel’s handpicked board — if they wish to maintain even a semblance of credibility — reject these wholesale closings, which would destroy vital community anchors in some of the city’s poorest and most disinvested neighborhoods.

Our communities and schools need you to make your voice heard at the public hearings CPS must hold for all these proposed actions. Find the appropriate school hearings below and let us know you will join our voices there. Unjust CPS school closings and attacks have been stopped before. Together, we can push back on the agenda that makes Chicago a city of haves and have-nots.