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by Eve L. Ewing

  • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
  • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
  • Release date: 06-25-19
  • Language: English

Eve L. Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures – they’re an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring people together. 

Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings. Pitched simultaneously as a solution to a budget problem, a response to declining enrollments, and a chance to purge bad schools that were dragging down the whole system, the plan was met with a roar of protest from parents, students, and teachers. But if these schools were so bad, why did people care so much about keeping them open? 

Ewing’s answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history. Black communities see the closing of their schools – schools that are certainly less than perfect but that are theirs – as one more in a long line of racist policies. The fight to keep them open is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build successful lives and achieve true self-determination.

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Author

Eve L. Ewing

Narrated by

Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length

6 hrs and 48 mins

Release date

06-25-19

Language

English

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