Seguimos Aquí– Film Screening + Discussion
Seguimos Aquí– Film Screening + Discussion
Today at 5:30 PM
National Museum of Mexican Art • Chicago, IL
Free
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Chicago's School Closings: A Film Screening and Discussion
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The University of Chicago Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Performance Hall 915 E 60th St Chicago, IL 60637
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Film Screening, Research Presentation, and Panel Discussion
Join us for The School Project’s second event, which will focus on the fallout from the massive school closure of 2013 and where we go now as a city. The event will include a screening of the short documentary Chicago Public Schools: Closed (trailer here), as well as a presentation on new findings from the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research on where the 10,000 students affected by the 2013 closings ended up and why. A subsequent panel discussion moderated by Laura Washington, Chicago Sun-Times Columnist and ABC-7 Chicago Political Analyst, will engage the audience in a conversation about the school closings and what Chicagoans can do moving forward.
Panelists, chosen with public input, include: Jesse Ruiz of the Board of Education; Jitu Brown of the Journey for Justice Alliance; Asif Wilson, executive director of Greenhouse Fellowship and a former Chicago Public School teacher; and Elaine Allensworth of the Consortium on Chicago School Research.
Chicago Public Schools: Closed is a short documentary that follows Rousemary Vega, a parent turned activist, through the maze of hearings and protests that preceeded the largest school closings in American history. We hear from major figures in public education—Terry Mazany, Linda Lutton, Andrea Zopp, Karen Lewis, David Vitale, and Jitu Brown—who help connect the dots between decades old education policies, demographic shifts, and the challenges facing CPS today.
This event is part of The School Project, a six-part documentary series on public education released in segments over the 2014-2015 school year. This series will look at local perspectives on the recent mass school closings in Chicago, the expansion of charter schools, the controversy surrounding standardized testing, school discipline policies, and the history of reforms and educational models. The School Project examines the roots of these issues and how each policy impacts the wider school community in Chicago and its implications on a national level. Chicago Schools: The Worst in the Nation?, the first installment in the series, is about the history of school reform in Chicago.
Event is free and open to the public. RSVP requested.
Event sponsored by the University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts and in collaboration with the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research