Southwest Side CPS Students Share Their Demands
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1. Keep all schools open in Chicago #NoSchoolClosings
2. Fund schools in Black and Brown communities equitably #RahmHatesUs - More counselors (ratio of at least 1:200 students) - Full time social workers in every school - Drop in therapy at every school
- Full time nurse
3. Invest in schools using TIF money. Make banks and the wealthy pay their fair share. #FreeTheFunds
- Fund Schools for students not a new police academy that would cost $95 million #NoCopAcademy
4. Support Black and Brown businesses
5. Reopen mental health clinics
6. Fund community centers and community schools
7. Stop charter expansion #NoSoNoble
8. Make Chicago a real sanctuary for all by eliminating carve outs in Welcoming City Ordinance #SanctuaryForAll
9. Jobs for youth
10. Improve language access and culturally relevant curriculum
11. Fully fund special education and bilingual services #SaveSpecialEd
12. End the criminalization of youth
- Eliminate the gang database #EndTheDatabase
- No guns in school
13. Student committees for hiring of school staff
14. Restorative justice trainings for school staff and focus on building trusting relationships with students so that schools become a family connected to the larger community
15. 16 and 17 year olds should have the right to vote as well as non-citizens
