Chicago reformers ask students to skip the first day of class
Local leaders are urging Chicago families in poverty-stricken neighborhoods to skip the first day of school on Sept. 2, using that time to instead try and enroll their children in schools in affluent suburban districts as a way to draw attention to funding discrepancies at Illinois schools. "Today we are back to two-tiered schools -- white and affluent on one side, and black, brown and poor on the other," said State Sen. James Meeks, who also is a local minister. "That's an injustice and it's immoral."
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