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.

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