Clergy Group Nixes CPS Boycott
by Lesley R. Chinn
While a coalition of pastors are currently planning a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) boycott on September
2, another clergy group wants parents to make sure their children go to school on the first day.
To stress this effort, the Baptist Pastors Conference of Chicago and Vicinity, headed by its president
Pastor Steve Jones held a press conference last Thursday in front of Hyde Park Career Academy, 6220 S.
Stony Island. Black Star Project executive director Philip Jackson and student participants joined them.
While there is a need for an equal school funding formula, Jones, also pastor of Spiritual Awakening M.B.
Church, said it should not be at the expense of the children. They didnt create this funding formula. State
lawmakers did. Dont take this skewed funding formula out on the children and use our babies as political
fodder as a cover-up for failed state laws, he said.
Subscribe Now to read full articles!
Latest Stories
- Glodean Champion Launches "The Process to LOVE™"
- Sundial Media & Technology Group and Creator Currency Networks Launch CreateHer Network to Address $31.8 Trillion Women Creator Economy Gap
- Illinois Peace Project Debuts the 2025 'Peace Portraits’ Honorees
- DCASE Brings Two Major Exhibitions to the City of Chicago This Summer: Fabiola Jean-Louis’ Waters of the Abyss and Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures
- American Cancer Society VOICES of Black Women Ambassador Dr. Erica Austin Convenes local Black Women to promote Women’s Health
Latest Podcast
STARR Community Services International, Inc.
