The Chicago Public Schools has proposed closing four high schools in Englewood and would build a new high school for $75 million and have a combined attendance boundary for students who today would go to those schools. The purpose is said to provide a new building with modern amenities.
In Englewood, CPS closed five elementary schools — all of which are vacant. As part of the proposal, CPS would demolish Robeson and build the new school there. The buildings that have Hope and TEAM Englewood high schools would remain because they are used by adjoining charter schools. CPS doesn’t have a plan for Harper, the fourth high school.
Asiaha Butler, president of R.A.G.E., was interviewed by Chicago Reporter.
“They really jacked up the repurposing process [after the 2013 closures],” Butler said. “For me, it’s always been a concern about these institutions becoming vacant spaces and becoming like the homes we have here with the Xs on the buildings.”
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