From the Editorial Board: Urban Prep, a charter school on Chicago's South Side, still deserves its independence.
Students recite the school creed on Oct. 25, 2022 at Urban Prep Academy in the Englewood area of Chicago
That takeover is now under appeal. An appeal the school should win. Otherwise, this is a destabilizing disaster for the young Black men who are proud to attend those schools on their way to colleges and universities.We think both Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker should step in to preserve what everyone can agree has been a remarkably successful educational experience for those students.
CPS is not exactly having great success with this demographic at present. The reality of a system failing young Black men on the South Side only increased with the endless pandemic closures. Only a limited percentage of Black male students leave CPS schools fully prepared to meet college requirements. There are profoundly dedicated teachers in many CPS schools, of course, but Urban Prep was doing something distinct in a specific way, and it clearly was working for those at-risk students.
And everyone we spoke to at Urban Prep, from board members to top educational officials, say that King is now permanently gone and charged that, in essence, CPS is using already corrected mistakes from the past to take over now.Many of them see this action as a bureaucratic assault on Chicago’s Black community, an attack on the whole notion of charter schools with independent ideas, and a school closure under another name. And we get why they see it that way.
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