FIRST ON FOX: South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott sentout a letter Friday to the mayor of Chicago slamming the Democrat over the city’s strategy to shutter selective-enrollment schools, which Scott states would be “devastating” to the neighborhood while likewise breaking a pledge the mayor made on the project path.
“I compose to reveal our strong condemnation of the Chicago Board of Education’s justrecently passed resolution that might getridof school option for Chicago households, strip minority and low-income trainees of their chosen high schools and expand the accomplishment space,” Scott composed in a letter to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Board of Education President Jianan Shi on Friday.
“As Chair of the Congressional School Choice Caucus, I think that every momsanddad has the right to pick the finest school for their kid, regardless of their zip code, and I desire you to maintain these important choices for households.”
The Chicago School Board passed a resolution this week that looksfor to relocation away from school option and strengthen the city’s area schools to address “long-standing structural bigotry and socio-economic inequality.” However, the relocation comes after Johnson supposedly informed the Chicago Tribune, “A Johnson administration would not end selective registration at CPS schools.”
CHICAGO TO MOVE AWAY FROM SCHOOL CHOICE, CENTER NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS TO RECTIFY ‘STRUCTURAL RACISM’
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, left, and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. (Getty Images)
“If enacted, this strategy would be ravaging to the thousands of trainees and households who presently advantage from participatingin a school of their option,” Scott composed. “Chicago’s 11 selective-enrollment high schools, which offer and stress scholastic rigor and accomplishment, register almost 10,000 Black and Hispanic trainees. Over 7,500 of trainees registered in these schools are low-income.”
According to the resolution that was passed, the board is looking to “transition away from privatization and admissions/enrollment policies and approaches that evenmore stratification and injustice in CPS and drive trainee registration away from community schools.”
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