From Chicago Now's "District 299" Chicago schools blog:
"After years of hard work by the Senn Strategic Planning Committee, the Senn Local School Council, Alderman Smith and other elected officials, the Chicago Board of Education is set to approve a fine arts magnet program at Senn High School at its meeting on January 26. > > CPS will announce details of the program, which will begin in September, 2011, at a public forum on Thursday, January 20 at 6:30 p.m. in the Senn auditorium, 5900 N. Glenwood. This forum is required before the Board can act on the proposal. Everyone is invited to attend the forum to learn more about this exciting educational option for our youth."
"After years of hard work by the Senn Strategic Planning Committee, the Senn Local School Council, Alderman Smith and other elected officials, the Chicago Board of Education is set to approve a fine arts magnet program at Senn High School at its meeting on January 26. > > CPS will announce details of the program, which will begin in September, 2011, at a public forum on Thursday, January 20 at 6:30 p.m. in the Senn auditorium, 5900 N. Glenwood. This forum is required before the Board can act on the proposal. Everyone is invited to attend the forum to learn more about this exciting educational option for our youth."
6 comments:
WOW! This is a great thing for SENN! Thanks to MAS for helping get this implemented. Maybe it will engage the kids and keep them from "roaming" the streets. Who knows, the next great artist could come out of this:)
What happened to the concept of the neighborhood school?
QBRNST, “neighborhood school” is a basically a term used by CPS to mean that a school does not have a selective enrollment process. If there are openings in a neighborhood school, students from anywhere in the city may attend it. The majority of students at Senn do not come from the neighborhood. Most students in the local feeder elementary schools choose to go to other high schools. This means there is room for students to come in from other neighborhoods. In fact, there is a lot of room since Senn has room for more students then there are in in the area. I don’t see, however, how this solves the issue of creating better schools for our neighborhood children, or even for the city at large. Nor do I understand how creating more actors and artists--many of whom are unemployed or under-employed--is going to help us compete on an international economic landscape that is becoming more competitive.
Did this informational meeting already happen? The tense of the sentence leads me to believe the date may be wrong since this article was published on the 21st of Jan. I would like to go and hope there is still an opportunity...
"CPS will announce details of the program, which will begin in September, 2011, at a public forum on Thursday, January 20 at 6:30 p.m. in the Senn auditorium, 5900 N. Glenwood"
Michael; Part of your comment, "creating more actors and artists--many of whom are unemployed or under-employed--is going to help us compete on an international economic landscape that is becoming more competitive." Is very true, however the "arts" are also very important in a well rounded education. Creativity creates dedication and expands the mind. Rahm Emanuel is involved with ballet. Who knew? I also think the arts can and often do, keep children off the streets and out of trouble.
If anyone would like to further address their comments on Senn' magnet program, I'm working on an in-depth article on it. My name is Colin Becht and I'm a journalism student at Northwestern. If you'd like to be interviewed for this story, please contact me at colinbecht2013@u.northwestern.edu
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