Community leaders on Monday called on students from poorer parts of Chicago to protest inequalities in school funding by skipping the first day of classes. State Sen. James Meeks wants students to spend Sept. 2 trying to enroll in a suburban school district that spends much more per student than Chicago Public Schools does. Critics of the planned protest say it will send the wrong message to children and undermine campaigns to get as many students as possible to attend the first day of classes in the nation's third-largest school district.
Protest organizers, though, say their message about unequal funding trumps any on attendance.
"Today we are back to two-tiered schools — white and affluent on one side, and black, brown and poor on the other," said Meeks, who also is a minister on the city's South Side. "That's an injustice and it's immoral."
-Michael Tarm; Associated Press
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