Browse past news stories for Walter Henri Dyett High School For Arts in Chicago, IL.
- Video: One year after hunger strike, Dyett High School opens - Chicago Reporter (2016)
When school starts next week, Dyett High School will reopen its doors and welcome some 150 freshmen. Inside, a memorial will eventually pay tribute to the school's history, including the dozen hunger strikers who made international news with their ...Dyett High School to reopen next weekWLS ... - Principal for new Dyett High School reprimanded in previous job - Chicago Tribune (2015)
Under pressure from residents who staged a weekslong hunger strike, the district decided to reopen Dyett as an arts-focused school next fall. The principal named Thursday, Beulah McLoyd, has been the principal at Clark High School in the South Austin ...CPS Hires 'Veteran' Princ ... - Principal for new Dyett High School reprimanded in previous job ... - Chicago Tribune (2015)
CPS on Thursday named Beulah McLoyd principal of the new Dyett High School. She was reprimanded last year during a theft inquiry involving two high ...Bronzeville resident named new principal of Dyett High School ... - Howard Tullman, IIT, Other Tech Leaders Tapped To Advise New Dyett High School - Chicago Inno (2015)
Chicago's tech leaders will have a role in forming the new iteration of Dyett High School, the Bronzeville school at the center of a 34 day hunger strike by parents and community activ ... - CPS announces two teams to help develop Dyett High School - Chicago Sun-Times - Breaking News (blog) (2015)
Dyett High School will have two volunteer teams of experts — one in the arts, the other in innovation — to help develop the neighborhood school the Chicago Public Schools decided to open next fall under community pressure, which included a monthlong ...Dyett High School hunger strike endsChicago TribuneDyett Hig ... - Dyett High School Protesters Announce End to 34-Day Hunger Strike - DNAinfo (2015)
When CPS annouced that Dyett would re-open in 2016 as an arts-focused open-enrollment school, in what administrators called a compromise between the activists' plan for a "global leadership and green technology high school" and other proposals, .. ... - Dyett High School hunger strike ends - Chicago Tribune (2015)
A group of residents staging a hunger strike to pressure Chicago Public Schools into reopening the former Dyett High School on the city's Southeast Side have ended their effort Saturday, according to one striker and reports on social media. "Your body ...CPS announces two teams to help develop ... - Dyett High School Hunger Strike Continues, Despite CPS Announcement - Chicago Tonight | WTTW (2015)
It's day 31 of the Dyett High School hunger strike and there's still no sign of a deal that could end the standoff. Despite Chicago Public Schools' announcement that it would reverse its plan to shutter Dyett and reinvent it as an open-enrollment, arts ...Hunger Strike to Save Dyett High School Hits One-Month Mark ...Labor NotesThe Hung ... - A Dyett High School Saga Explainer: Closures, Protests and a Hunger Strike - DNAinfo (2015)
The Coalition to Revitalize Dyett High School grew out of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, which, as one political writer recently put it, has been feuding with May ... - FAQ on Dyett High School hunger strike - Chicago Tribune (2015)
A: The protesters want Chicago Public Schools to keep Dyett High School at 555 E. 51st St. open. Citing years of poor performance and declining enrollment, CPS slated Dyett for a three-year phaseout process beginning in 2012. By the last school year ...The Fight Over Dyett ... - Dyett High School hunger strike enters 11th day, Mayor Emanuel responds - WGN-TV (2015)
Chicago TribuneCHICAGO -- It is day 11 of a hunger strike on Chicago's South Side. About a dozen parents and grandparents are starving themselves in protest of the closing of Walter H. Dyett High School. The group says they've lived on water, juice and other ...Activists go hungry in bid to save Dyett High School from ... - Dyett High School supporters already have a plan, but CPS still shopping around - Chicago Sun-Times (2015)
A community group has a plan to revive Dyett High School, which was being phased out. But Chicago Public Schools has issued a formal request for proposals, opening the way for ... - CPS Wants Ideas to Reopen Dyett High School by April 6 - DNAinfo (2014)
“Members of the community have expressed a strong interest in a new school at the Dyett site and we look forward to working with the co ... - City Hall sit-in wins concessions for Dyett High School students - Chicago Sun-Times (2014)
“We won some major changes as of next weekâ&eur ... - 11 Dyett High School protesters arrested at City Hall - WLS-TV (2014)
"CPS has not been held accountable for the sabotage of Dyett and if it closes, we won't have a neighborhood high school in this area. We are prepared to go to jail in larger number again, to get justice for our children," Robinson said. "The Mayor's ...Chicago Coalition To Revitalize Dyett High School ... - 12 students enrolled in final year at Dyett High School - WLS-TV (2014)
NBC ChicagoAfter years of declining enrollment, Dyett will close its doors for good this spring, CPS says. Most of the Class of 2015's seniors transferred to other schools, but some wanted to stay. "Because I want to have the opportunity to go to the school I've ...Chicago High Sch ... - Chicago Education Activists Target Ald. Burns Over Future Of Dyett High School ... - Progress Illinois (2014)
Chicago education activists are ramping up their fight to save Walter H. Dyett High School from closing at the end of the 2014-2015 school year. At a news conference at City Hall on Monday, a coalition of parents, students ...
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